Trump’s redistricting push and voting rights cases in Texas and Louisiana could wipe out nearly a third of the 62-member ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn has released a new book detailing the history and legacy of the "First Eight" Black congressmen.

Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their ...

Congressman James Clyburn has spent more than three decades in Congress. In his new book, he turns his attention to the ...

Seventy years after his groundbreaking airport survey, Charles Diggs Jr.’s fight for travel equality gets its first full biography ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) spoke about his new book at the talk Tuesday hosted by Politics and Prose in partnership with GW.

U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., evoked the history of the enslavement of African Americans amid criticisms of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants. A Black ICE official got a mouthful ...

Former Rep. William “Bill” Clay Sr., D-Mo., a trailblazing civil rights leader, Missouri’s first Black legislator, and one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus, has died. He ...

William L. Clay Sr., who became Missouri's first Black member of Congress, a champion of civil rights and workers’ rights and a force in regional and national politics for decades, died Wednesday. He ...

Bri Woodson, a mental health counselor and TikToker from Georgia, has eyes on becoming the second-youngest Black woman in Congress.

S.C., about his new book, "The First Eight," which tells the untold story of the first Black politicians elected to Congress from South Carolina.