Washington, DC – Legislation renaming the Morris Heights Post Office after former Tuskegee Airman and Bronx Community College President Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. has been approved in the Congress. The bill now heads to President Barack Obama’s desk for his […]
Tuesday, November 8 — This day in 1892 was, like today, an election day. Winning his first Federal office then as a Representative was Charles Curtis of Kansas. Curtis, who spent much of his youth on his mother’s reservation, was possibly […]
Sunday, November 6 — This week in 1966, Edward Brooke, a Republican, became the nation’s first African-American to win election to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, and only the third to serve in that chamber. During Reconstruction in the […]
U.S. Senate has confirmed Eric Fanning to be Army secretary
FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN SENATOR Profile America — A social milestone was reached this date in 1907 when Congressman Charles Curtis of Kansas was seated in the U.S. Senate to complete the few weeks remaining in the term of a resigned […]
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