Crockett could become the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Texas. It would also mark the first ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Sunday he agrees with Michelle Obama that the U.S. is not yet ready for a woman president, but ...

Thursday’s packed forum, hosted by the Democratic Ninth Ward, was largely an opportunity for candidates to introduce ...

AMHERST, NY — The Amherst Main Public Library will be under a new name in the near future. On Monday, the town of Amherst ...

For Democrats seeking to return the House to their party’s hands, retirement announcements are a window of opportunity.

Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson talks about her friend Mia Love, who died at her Saratoga Springs home of glioblastoma multiforme ...

Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) has introduced legislation aimed at preventing hospitals from discharging women during active labor ...

A library in Amherst will soon be getting a new name. The resolution to rename the Amherst Main Library at Audubon after former U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ...

Discover the untold history of the eight pioneering Black congressmen from South Carolina who paved the way for Rep. James ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents an encore presentation of a conversation he ...

Presidents have the power to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, a ...

On Dec. 5, 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with white people.