In an interview on Fox News this week, Trump said “FEMA is getting in the way of everything," and suggested that he would withhold assistance from California. Congressional Democrats have sharply ...
Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...
In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...
Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...
The sixth-term mayor Erin Stewart, of New Britain, said last fall she will not seek a new term in 2025. Now she is likely to run for governor in Connecticut.