Tower Center Fellow Dr. Danielle Casarez Lemi, along with Dr. Nadia E. Brown of Purdue University, wrote an overview of the literature that examines Black women’s candidacies for political office, identifying three core themes of how the Democratic Party animates their relationship to electoral politics: 1) the Party as gatekeeper and player of racial politics, 2) the Party as contributing to emotional hurt and misgivings, and 3) the women’s display of agency and desire to push back against the Democratic Party. Read more here.