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 ...
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 ...
Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said at a news conference Friday morning at the Capitol. Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke said Trump used the tragey to further "his racist, insane agenda ...
The battle over Alabama's congressional map is set to continue as a key redistricting trial, Caster v. Allen, begins Monday.