Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of ...

To look at this photo is to see what will come next. Not just over the course of a month in 1965, but into the future that is ...

Nineteen members of Congress died in office in the 2000s, and 16 died in office in the 1990s, according to data from a Congressional Research Service report. The 1980s, however, saw a higher number of ...

Rep. Gus Bilirakis held town hall meetings in Florida where constituents engaged in bipartisan discussions about trade-offs ...

Black Public Media will honor editor Lillian E. Benson with the BPM Trailblazer Award at the eighth annual PitchBLACK Awards.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday ...

It’s true that Democrats have very little power in Congress right now. But what they can do is steal attention and disrupt ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) attempted another “I am Spartacus” moment for himself on the floor of the upper chamber — holding the Senate hostage for more than 25 hours as part of a marathon “filibuster” ...

Rather than the typical open-mic format where a member of Congress fields questions ... The late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) hosted one in downtown Atlanta. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.), ...

As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his ...