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WASHINGTON -- One of the authors of the 2012 flood insurance reform law has written a letter with 26 congressional colleagues that asks the Federal Emergency Management Agency to take administrative steps to avert huge increases in premiums resulting from the agency's implementation of the law.
The landmark legislation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been dealt a severe blow by the nation's highest court forty-eight years after it was enacted, sparking outrage from The president, Black elected officials on Capitol Hill to Blacks leading the nation's oldest civil rights organizations.
From the president of the United States to civil rights leaders and educators, several Americans paid homage to former Congressman William H. Gray III, the first African-American majority whip in Congress and former president of the United Negro College Fund, who died Monday in London at the age of 71.
The North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation has raised $100,000 in scholarship money for 2013.
The group announced the fundraising effort at its annual Education Scholarship Weekend held recently at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) released the following statement after the passing of former Congressman William "Bill" Gray (D-PA). He was 71 years old.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), a leading advocate in Congress for HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and treatment, released the following statement in recognition of National HIV Testing Day.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter today to Christy L.
The St. Louis City NAACP's Centennial Gala held Friday, June 7 in the Khorassan Ballroom at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel was not merely the branch's largest fundraising event of the year.