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The first was Patricia Roberts Harris under President Jimmy Carter. Fudge's identity as a Black woman and former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus helps the Biden Administration underline its priority of protecting civil rights in housing and urban planning for Blacks and Brown people, and other minorities like the LGBT community. As congresswoman from Ohio since 2008, Fudge voted last month to pass the latest iteration of the Equality Act—a sweeping civil rights law that would finally give LGBT persons federal protections when it comes to renting an apartment, buying a house, ap...
14 Dec 2020 Black Democrats are unhappy former Vice President Joe Biden snubbed Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) for the position of Agriculture Secretary, instead choosing her for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) lobbied Biden to pick Fudge to head the Department of Agriculture, to better serve minority communities in the United States. Fudge is a former prosecutor and mayor and sits on the Agriculture Committee. Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), head of the CBC, said on December 3: “Our Marcia Fudge should definitely be in that spot. … We are being v...