Rangel, a gravelly voiced and exuberant congressman from the Harlem neighborhood of New York who became the first African American chairman ... His policy positions were generally in line with ...

Mitchell Memorial, the first Black Congressman elected from the State of Maryland, at Roger “Pip” Moyer Recreation Center, Wednesday afternoon. Former Maryland State Senator Michael Bowen ...

Things were looking up ... Democratic-primary race against Bobby Rush, the African American incumbent congressman representing Illinois’ First Congressional District, the then-still-obscure ...

The first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was a political force for decades, only to be tarnished by an ethics violation. Charles Rangel spoke at a news conference outside ...

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home shortly after 2 a.m.

I AM THE GREAT GREAT NIECE OF CONGRESSMAN PARREN J ... Mitchell, a trailblazer in politics and civil rights, was the first African American elected to Congress from Maryland.His family told ...

Charles Rangel, the dapper, voluble US congressman from New York’s Harlem ... From 1974, when he became the first Black member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rangel championed tax ...

DeHart Hubbard of Avondale made history as the first Black athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal when he won the long jump at the 1924 Olympic Games. Those Games were held in Paris that ...

Washington’s Black Lives Matter Plaza stood as a place to mourn, celebrate, argue and ultimately renew the nation’s commitment to the fight for equality. Then, amid a recent shift in political winds ...

Parren J. Mitchell, a trailblazer in politics and civil rights, was the first African American elected to Congress from Maryland. Parren J. Mitchell, a trailblazer in politics and civil rights ...

Although many folks were shocked at Madden revealing his time in prison or comparing his brand’s “dupes” to The Beatles copying Black music, what caught many Black folks off guard is how the ...