The Texas lawmaker later served as a friend and mentor to Cadore. “She introduced me to an entirely new world in D.C., with the Congressional Black Caucus, and she has guided me ever since that ...

State legislators and Democratic leaders are demanding Gov. Greg Abbott schedule a vote to fill the seat left vacant by the ...

The former lawmaker from Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had undergone treatment for an aggressive brain tumor called ...

Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress ... She instead endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the GOP race, but he dropped ...

"I plan to introduce a bill to censure Jasmine Crockett for her disgraceful and vile attacks against our Governor of Texas," Weber wrote on X. "This kind of rhetoric has no place in Congress." ...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that the special election to fill the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester ...

Texas, a member of the far-left group of progressive lawmakers known as "the Squad," told congregants at a historically Black ...

Democrats had accused Abbott of delaying calling a special election for the seat after Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, died ...

Mia Love, the first Republican black woman elected to Congress, has died ... She later endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the GOP race. She released a statement saying she would not vote for ...

HOUSTON — Texas state lawmakers and national ... Jolanda Jones invoked the legacy of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman elected to Congress from the South, who once represented the historic ...

while his reporting on how tax revaluations discriminated against Black homeowners in Winston-Salem won the N.C. Press Association’s second-place award for investigative reporting in 2013.