Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, dies

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former Florida congresswoman Carrie Meek has died at the age of 95. Meek was a Democrat and one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction. She was the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter. In Congress, Meek championed affirmative action, economic opportunities for the poor and [...]