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Civil Rights icon Daisy Bates commemorated with Capitol statue | New Orleans' Multicultural News...
Louisiana Weekly· 20 hours agoArkansas Republican Congressman Bruce Westerman reflected on Bates’s early life challenges, while the man who created the statue praised her courage. Democratic members of Congress also chimed ...
Statuesque Rev. Graham tribute comes to the Capitol, but shies away from the limelight
Fox News· 49 minutes agoOne perk of covering Congress is that you get to see the Capitol statues after hours. Speaker of the...
Sens. Ted Cruz, Katie Britt introduce Republican bill to protect IVF
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoTwo conservative Republican senators on Monday introduced a bill which seeks to protect access to in...
Mississippi’s Jefferson Davis statue has new neighbor in U.S. Capitol: Arkansas civil rights leader
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 3 days agoA week ago, Arkansas officials unveiled a new statue at the National Statuary Hall to represent the state, civil rights leader Daisy Bates. “This is absolutely embarrassing ...
At Detroit NAACP dinner, Biden says he needs Black voters, chides Trump
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoHe also called Trump "unhinged," saying Trump wants to pardon supporters who stormed the U.S. ...
Civil rights group says Chicago mayor, top cop should take tougher action against officers linked to...
Chicago Sun-Times· 6 days agoS. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center pushes Johnson and...
The late Rev. Billy Graham is immortalized in a statue unveiled at the US Capitol
The Nashua Telegraph· 3 days agoRev. Franklin Graham, son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, speaks after unveiling a bronzed sculpture...
Georgia mulls swapping in ‘Hammerin’ Hank’ Aaron for statue of Confederate leader in U.S. Capitol
The Washington Times· 4 days agoGeorgia lawmakers are flirting with replacing the statue of Confederate leader Alexander Stephens at...
Statue of Rev. Billy Graham, who ‘transcended politics,’ now stands in US Capitol
Durham Herald-Sun McClatchy via AOL· 4 days agoThe Rev. Billy Graham now has a permanent home in the U.S. Capitol. After a decade of trying, North...
Southern Minnesota man pleads guilty for role in Jan. 6 insurrection
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBlue Earth, Minn., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to being at the front of the crowd with other supporters of then-President Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U