[3] The first in her family to go to college, she attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia for her freshman year as a Herbert Lehman Scholar.
[4] In 1976, she married Soji Tinubu, a Nigerian-born U.S. citizen who has a master's degree in civil engineering from Clemson University.
[5] Bromell decided on graduate studies, becoming the first African-American woman to earn an MS in Agricultural Economics (December 1977) from Clemson University.
Her findings were published in Progressive Farmer Magazine (1978), carried by many local newspapers throughout the State, presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association's annual meeting, and submitted to the South Carolina Legislature.
[6] Bromell Tinubu continued with graduate work at Clemson, in August 1986 becoming their first African American student to earn a Ph.D. in Applied Economics.
[5] In February 2019, during the 2020 cycle, Bromell Tinubu endorsed Marianne Williamson and announced that she would be working as her national senior advisor and South Carolina state director.
In 2012, she ran as a Democrat for Congress in South Carolina's newly established 7th congressional district against state representative Ted Vick and Myrtle Beach attorney Preston Brittain.
[20] The South Carolina Election Commission declared Bromell Tinubu as the primary winner, but a judge ruled that the votes cast for Vick had to be counted.
[22] In 2018, Tinubu was selected by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Noble to be his lieutenant governor running mate.
James Smith ultimately won the Democratic nomination[23] In May 2019, Tinubu announced a run for United States Senate, challenging Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham.