Senator Tim Scott Announces Event Honoring America’s Black Senators During Black History Month

Washington - U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) will be joined by former U.S. Senators Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), and William "Mo" Cowan (D-MA) at Honoring our Past and Celebrating our Future: Discussing Personal Journeys and a Nation's Progress with America's Black Senators. The event, to be held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. at 9:30 AM on February 25th, will be a non-partisan discussion moderated by U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black.

President Barack Obama (D-IL), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and former Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA) have also been invited. Reconstruction-era Senators Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-MS) and Blanche Kelso Bruce (R-MS) will be honored as well.