While history was being made today in Washington history, of sorts, was made in Colorado where the two leaders of each of the chambers of the Colorado Legislature are both Black men.
Thirty-nine-year-old Terrance Carroll is the newly elected Speaker of the House (which has 65 members) while 45-year-old Peter Groff was elected President of the Senate (which has 35 members). What makes this feat even more extraordinary is that Carroll and Golf are also the only African Americans in each of their respective legislative chambers. This is the first time in U.S. history that the leaders of both chambers of a state legislature have been African American.