WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours ...

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after ...

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement. Topping that list ... in 1961 she personally escorted the first Black ...

Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the civil rights movement.

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement ... to get their children out of public ...

Medicaid was supposed to be about health care support for “poor children, pregnant women ... where federal spending has exploded. The civil rights movement was about freedom and justice.

Former Judge Phyllis Randolph Frye came out in 1976. Thirty-four years later she became the first openly transgender person ...

By contrast, when the Civil Rights Movement got pulled into an action ... so many marchers were arrested, many of them children, that there was no more room for them in the jails.

A Better Life for Their Children, a special art exhibition about ... Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with ...

told the crowd that “civil rights should not be a 21st-century debate.” She said that she had been “silenced” in her work as a voice for vulnerable children and communities. Choking back ...