Breaking news: Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat who during three decades in the U.S. House of Representatives became one of the most prominent Black members of Congress and a ubiquitous champion of African American and women’s rights, died July 19 at a hospital in Houston. She was 74.

Sheila Jackson Lee, outspoken Texas congresswoman, dies at 74

The long-serving Democrat, a champion of African American and women’s rights, announced in June that she had pancreatic cancer.