William Lacy Clay Sr.'s career in political office started when he was 28 years old. The civil rights advocate was a strong ...

ST. LOUIS — William "Bill" Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and a St. Louis civil rights leader, died Thursday morning. He was 94.

William Lacy “Bill” Clay Sr., a civil rights leader and Missouri’s first African-American Congressman, has died at the age of ...

It is deeply concerning to witness the pervasive fear among African Americans and Latin Americans, particularly immigrants or ...

An unrepentant liberal, Clay served more than three decades in Congress, the first African American from Missouri. His son, Lacy Clay, succeeded him.

“The treatment of Congresswoman McBride resembles the mistreatment of African American representatives during Jim Crow,” he says. “Disgraceful, and it’s gratuitous.

The first Memorial Day wasn’t created by Congress or a president—it was born from the determination of newly freed African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina. On May 1, 1865, at the site ...

Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost ...

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

I talked with Alabama's newest member of Congress about the possible future impact on the state from Donald Trump's so called ...

Several artifacts are being removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, according to the owners of the artifacts.

A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and Culture may be ...