Who is Rep. Cori Bush?
CONGRESSWOMAN Cori Bush has served as the US representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district since 2021.
On August 7, 2024, it was revealed that the 48-year-old politician lost her Democratic primary in Missouri.
Who is Rep. Cori Bush?
Missouri native Cori Anika Bush, is an American politician, registered nurse, pastor, and activist.
Before her political career, she got her nursing degree from Lutheran School of Nursing and spent over a decade working as a nurse, clergy, and childcare worker.
In 2011, she stared her own church in St. Louis called the Kingdom Embassy International Church, which only stayed open for three years.
The daughter of a politician, Bush had no intentions on running for office, she was asked to by community leaders after leading a protest back in 2014 after the death Michael Brown Jr.
According to her biography, she initially declined the offer to run for office but decided to run later on because "she could not stand to see her son or daughter become hashtags of injustice without doing all she could to protect them."
Bush first ran in 2016 but lost the election before assumed office back on January 3, 2021, as the US Representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district.
On August 7, 2024, Bush lost her Democratic primary to St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell.
Does Cori Bush have children?
Bush is a single mother to two children, Zion and Angel.
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Zion was born prematurely and only weighed just over a pound.
"His ears were still in his head. His eyes were still fused shut. His fingers were smaller than rice, and his skin was translucent," Bush told back in May 2021. "We were told he had a zero percent chance of life."
Zion had to spend four months in the hospital's intensive care unit, but after being given a zero percent chance of life, he survived.
Bush became pregnant with her daughter, Angel, just a few months after Zion was born.
Bush opened up to People that 16 weeks into her pregnancy with Angel, she went into early labor again, and while her doctors said the baby wasn't worth trying to save, her sister stepped in to change the doctor's mind.
After her sister demanded the doctors do something, they ended up giving her a cervical cerclage, which is a stitch in the cervix meant to prevent early deliveries, so she could carry Angel to term, where she was born healthy.
"This is what desperation looks like. That chair flying down a hallway," Bush said about her sister throwing a chair to get doctor's attention. "Every day, Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day, Black women die because the system denies our humanity."