A Black woman has put her bid in to run for Senator Mitch McConnell’s seat. Col. Pamela D. Stevenson announced campaign on ...

Booker, the senior Democrat from New Jersey, on Tuesday broke the previously-held record for an individual speech given in ...

Cory Booker is a Democratic U.S. senator who has represented New Jersey since 2013, when he became the first Black person to hold the seat. He won a special election and was re-elected for a full ...

It was a much-needed win for the Democratic party, and a major accomplishment for Booker, who became New Jersey’s first Black senator in 2013. To prepare for the speech, Booker reportedly fasted ...

Democratic senator Cory Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the US Senate floor with a marathon critique of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon ...

Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun receives a standing ovation during a February City Council meeting, where the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate was honored for her contributions to ...

Sixty-eight years after Storm Thurmond broke the record for the longest Senate speech to delay access to voting for Black Americans, Cory Booker, the Black Senator from New Jersey, broke Thurmond ...

We got civil rights because people marched for it, sweated for it, and John Lewis bled for it,” the senator said on Tuesday.