For The First Time, The Maryland House Speaker Won’t Be A White Man

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers are choosing a new speaker of the House, and for the first time it won’t be a white man.
A one-day special session is scheduled in Annapolis, Maryland, on Wednesday.
Del. Maggie McIntosh, a white lesbian progressive Democrat from Baltimore, is running against Del. Dereck Davis, a black Democrat from Prince George’s County.
It’s been a close race in an unusually public contest that generally has been settled for decades in private c