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    Black women seek to boost their clout in California Democratic Party

    by Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times Aug 05, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - State Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles looked out at more than a hundred black women gathered for an annual event at the California Democratic Party convention earlier this summer and marveled at the group's progress.

    "The first Black Women's Meetup we could have had in a 7-Eleven ladies' room; there were that few of us," Mitchell said, surveying the crowd. "Look at you now."

    They had much to celebrate. California Sen. Kamala Harris had launched a front-running bid for president. Democratic victories in the 2018 midterm elections helped refocus attention on black women as a pivotal Democratic voting bloc. The number of black women delegates to the California Democratic Party had more than tripled in just two years. And Mitchell and others were seeking to elect the party's first black female chair, Bay Area activist Kimberly Ellis.

    Ellis would go on to lose the race - a reminder to many black women in the Democratic Party that they still have a long way to go.

    But her candidacy is fueling a

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