In February 2023, history was made in the Commonwealth as elected Democrat Jennifer McCllelan soared to victory in a race to ...

"This bill is not a symbolic gesture, but rather a meaningful step for repairing the deep structural injustices," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District, said Wednesday.

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

Alabama's congressional map is the subject of a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state has to keep a new court ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) -George Henry White was one of the first black men elected to Congress in North Carolina. He was born a slave in Rosindale, Bladen County in 1852. White joined the North ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, in an address from the floor of the House of Representatives, focused on the ...