Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (S.C.) record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the ...

The National Bank of Thurmond closed in 1931, and the New River Bank relocated to Oak Hill in 1935. The town also lost its meat-packing plant in 1932 and its telephone district office in 1938.

Strom Thurmond was broken earlier this week as part of a protest address over Donald Trump. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., broke Thurmond's record for the longest Senate speech April 1 as he ...

A city-backed greenhouse built to grow food in a Winston-Salem neighborhood identified as a food desert is about to lose its ...

Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) filibuster-style speech on the Senate ... record currently held by notorious segregationist Strom Thurmond. Booker began his speech at 7pm ET on Monday, saying he ...

His promised hour passed; Strom spoke on. Gallery attendance dropped to three: Thurmond’s wife Jean, N.A.A.C.P. Washington Representative Clarence Mitchell, and an unidentified man who was ...

Strom Thurmond, who held a time of 24 hours and 18 ... This was displayed last month, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., along with eight other Senate Democrats and an independent ...

Thurmond delivered a filibuster of 24 hours ... center for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and on behalf of former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson, who was running for ...

The 16-year-old has consistently made headlines and been at the center of protests in recent months simply for competing.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, for instance, pulls down over $210,00 a year for running his department in Sacramento. It’s important work. He’s well-compensated for it.

Cory Booker, D-N.J., gave a marathon speech on the Senate ... breaking the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. One post on X stated: Booker has now ...