Carol Moseley Braun, first black female senator: ’Sexism is harder to change than racism’

Trailblazing Illinois Democrat reflects on political career and says party is in a daze' about how to combat Trump

Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton ... "

Carol Moseley Braun was riding a lift in the US Capitol building when she heard Dixie, the unofficial anthem of the slave-owning Confederacy during the civil war. The sound was not very loud, yet it pierced my ears with the intensity of a dog whistle," Moseley Braun writes in her new memoir, Trailblazer. Indeed, that is what it was in a sense."