Following a gubernatorial election campaign predicted to being a national referendum on the state of the Democratic Party, Winsome Sears, a naturalized citizen from Jamaica made history in America for being the first Black elected lieutenant governor in the history of the commonwealth of Virginia.
Fifty-seven-year-old conservative Republican Sears added to a national conversation after making history for her party, gender and place of birth.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica she migrated to the United States with her parents at age six. She grew up in the Bronx and from early on, the ambitious immigrant decidedly set her sights on capitalizing on the much touted American Dream.
