Berg’s 44th District colleague Lovick, D-Mill Creek, is now in the Senate. He was first elected to the House in 1998 when there were only a handful of members of color.
“I was the only Black member in the House of Representatives, and I will tell you, it was a lonely world,” Lovick said.
Lovick grew up in a deeply segregated Louisiana in the 1960s, “I’m from a poor community in the South. I picked cotton when I was 6, 7, 8 years old up until I turned 18,” he said.
In his first years in the Legislature, he found it difficult to open up to his colleagues about his
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