EDGEFIELD, SC (WJBF)- Over to the diamond, it’s the battle of the Rebels as Strom Thurmond hosts Mid-Carolina in a 2A South Carolina High School League elimination game. The Rebels fell 6-1 on ...

May 13—STROM THURMOND 4, ANDREW JACKSON 3 JOHNSTON — There were a lot of times it all could have gone wrong Tuesday for the Strom Thurmond baseball team. A lost ball in the sun. A ball thrown ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks to journalists at the Capitol on Tuesday. Booker obliterated a record long held by the late Strom Thurmond, speaking out for more than 25 hours in protest against ...

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

Booker's speech, measured at a few minutes over 25 hours, eclipsed Thurmond's stand against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted 24 hours, 18 minutes, according to the Senate Historical Office.

Cory Booker said he was determined to surpass Strom Thurmond’s record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the segregationist held the mark.

Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t talk about his Black daughter, though.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for longest Senate speech, breaking Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1957 speech opposing civil rights. Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding ...

Nearly 70 years after Strom Thurmond filibustered against Black civil rights, Booker’s marathon speech called out threats to democracy and the harm of Trump-era policies.