“We are used to doing our homework and having to show up.”
In Warren, some Black women say they see kinship in a candidate who talks with substance and specificity about problems and solutions.
“We are used to doing our homework and having to show up,” said Heather McGhee, the former president of the progressive think tank Demos. She said several of Warren’s marquee issues — housing, child care and student debt — are ones that disproportionately affect Black women.