The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...

With Lewis’ passing five years ago, we lost a moral compass. But in the halls of the Senate recently, Sen. Cory Booker admired Lewis and embodied his spirit of principled activism. He has answered ...

Cory Booker, fresh off demonstrating that he is ... held forth on the Senate floor for 24-plus hours in 1957 to block passage of the Civil Rights Act; Booker surpassed his feat, protesting not ...

There’s a bitter irony in unrelated headlines coming out of the April Fools’ Day special elections.

Cory Booker took a version of his record-breaking ... Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Questioner after questioner asked what they could be doing to show their ...

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey broke the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in chamber history April 1 ...

Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks April 1 on the Senate ... and the world marched toward another war. In 1957, the Civil Rights Act was gutted by a jury trial amendment that protected injustice.

Cory Booker, D-N.J., had on hand when he took ... And, as the Trump administration continues to dismantle civil rights laws and protections — and literally erase the movement from classrooms ...

Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators ...

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen arrived in El Salvador Wednesday to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who ...