Only black US senator to leave

Senate’s only African-American preparing to leave his post, with no black candidate to replace him.

US midterms

With just one week to go before the US midterm elections, Roland Burris, the Senate’s only African-American member is preparing to leave his post.

No black representative is expected to replace him.

His leaving has raised the question of how a nation in which blacks make up 13 per cent of the population can have none in its upper legislative chamber?

Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan reports from Chicago.

Source: Al Jazeera