Senate File 369, which was advanced 38-7, would require high schoolers to take and pass the United States Citizenship and ...

Months after the DOJ was ordered to hit pause on filing Civil Rights Act violation lawsuits, it dropped its case against the Mississippi State Senate.

Strom Thurmond, a segregationist who used the Senate procedure known as a filibuster in an effort to block the passage of landmark civil rights legislation for Black Americans. Nearly 70 years ago ...

“I don’t plan to get involved in the Democratic primary if there is one for the United States Senate. Let the voters ... would make history as the first Black governor of Illinois should ...

Durbin was also instrumental in reversing a war on drugs-era law that penalized crack cocaine in a 100-to-1 ratio to powder cocaine, a law that disproportionately hit Black defendants with long ...

Booker said he wanted to disrupt “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am ... time of widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters. It passed within hours after ...

“I don’t plan to get involved in the Democratic primary if there is one for the United States Senate. Let the voters ... would make history as the first Black governor of Illinois should ...

Cory Booker proclaimed, “Hineni,” I am here, 19 hours into his marathon speech on the Senate floor Tuesday ... of the hardest jobs in all of the United States, which is to be president ...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the first Black party leader in Congress ... “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt ... CQ Brown Jr., the second Black general to serve as chairman, as part of his Republican administration’s campaign to rid the ...