Shortly before the first House Republican majority in 40 years took office on Jan. 3, 1995, current and incoming GOP lawmakers adopted a House Republican Conference rule limiting lawmakers to six ...

Hazel Nell Dukes, a towering figure in the civil rights movement and longtime NAACP leader, died Saturday, March 1, at age 92 ...

Rep. Al Green is believed to be he first lawmaker in modern history to be thrown out of a Joint Session of Congress or a State of the Union address.

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The acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer will give a talk as part of the Boxser Diversity Initiative's Building ...

Hazel Dukes, a longtime civil rights activist and president of the NAACP New York State Conference died Saturday, she was 92.

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In Master of the Senate, the third volume of his monumental biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert Caro provides some acerbic commentary on that august body. “Decades of the seniority rule had ...

an initiative kickstarted by President Lyndon B. Johnson to help low-income children prepare for kindergarten. The trailblazer then went on the following year to become the first black American to ...