The first Black woman to run for president brought her leadership on a national stage and forced the country to reckon with ...

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On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Senator Jim Risch discusses U.S. security challenges in Africa, including terrorism in Somalia, the war in Sudan, and the ...

A preacher and respected community leader, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first Black ... only 10 other African American people have ever been elected or appointed to the U.S. Senate—including ...

Dylann Roof has a legitimate claim to the heritage that Nikki Haley upholds for its devotion to family and tradition, traits ...