The Congressional Hispanic Conference (CHC) selected Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) as its leader for the 119th Congress.  The ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

Hard-line conservatives and House GOP leadership struck an agreement on the conference’s budget resolution shortly before a ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley has reintroduced H.R. 40, a bill to study reparations for slavery, amid President Trump's dismantling of ...

As President Donald Trump attempts to eliminate any consideration of race, a new federal effort is underway to recognize the ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) teared up while reintroducing a reparations bill, taking up the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's mantel.

"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.

The current chair, Adriano Espaillat, is a formerly undocumented immigrant with a solid political pedigree. But some members are questioning his leadership.

Barely a month after predicting a new "golden age" under President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans are struggling to ...

Johnson -- who last month proclaimed that Trump's inauguration would usher in a "new golden age for America" -- and other ...

First responders were still retrieving dead bodies from the icy waters of the Potomac River when President Donald Trump ...