'Support Black Women Leaders' Is Key Message In National Ad—And We Agree On International Women’s Day, advocacy group Higher Heights issues challenge for more representation of Black women in politics In a full-page ad in The New York Times, the group is celebrating nearly 100 current and former Black women political leaders. They run the gamut from Vice President Kamala Harris to the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Higher Heights is also challenging what they called “the shameless absence of Black women” in certain offices at the federal level and beyond. “Zero Black women in the Senate. Zero Black women on the Supreme Court. Zero Black women Governors. Zero Black women… Presidents,” the ad reads. “52 years after Shirley Chisholm’s historic election as the first Black woman in Congress, Black women remain the backbone of our democracy and are more than qualified to lead it. On this International Women’s Day, #ReachHigher with Higher Heights for America to support Black women leaders. We need them now more than ever.”