Its core teaching of “good soil” yielding a continuous bounty proved to be a prophetic metaphor for the living legacy of the ...

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

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 ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who was born in Chicago and just arrived in Rome to teach.

Two weeks after the arrival Aug. 17, 1940, of engineer and anti-aircraft cadres, the first trainloads of Black recruits unloaded and were shuffled to tent camps at the north end of what is today ...

“History not taught,” it says. “The first 23 Black congressmen were Republican.” “You won’t be taught this,” wrote Ryan Fournier, the co-chair of Students for Trump, whose watermark ...

His very first vote as a U.S. congressman was to void the U.S ... Donalds drew outrage for saying that more Black people were married during the Jim Crow years when rights for Black people ...

The bar owner told Wilson about the incident, and he learned the legislators were the same ones who had ... in the public sphere as Nevada’s first Black legislator, Wilson also was a pivotal ...

The first three Black members of the U.S. House from Alabama were each elected in the 1870s, but none them served concurrently. None of the first three Black members also served beyond a single term.

adding “You have smart ones” and without specifying what the “ones” were ... s infamous “my African American” line several years ago: He immediately. The first thing he did was ...

The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Black men’s rights to suffrage and to serve in the United States Congress were established only after the Union ...