Meet the black women shaking up U.S. politics

.@IlhanMN‘s victory speech is nothing short if beautiful pic.twitter.com/pCR2oNGgus

— jordan (@JordanUhl) August 15, 2018

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Ilhan Omar

Omar is Minnesota’s candidate for US Congress and set to become the first Muslim woman in Congress.  She defeated Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., in Minnesota’s fifth congressional district.   She has made history as the first Somali legislator in the United States in 2016.