The Great Society, which paralleled the New Deal in generating innovative solutions and opportunities for marginalized ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that eliminated the Federal Executive Institute, a training program ...

Local officials should go on the offense to protect important initiatives that have benefited all of us. In particular, they ...

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — ...

Evelyn Seabrook was able to buy a home even though she had only a high school diploma. Glenn Flood worked his way up the ...

But in revoking President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246 that launched our decades-long imposition of de facto racial quotas under the euphemism “affirmative action,” Trump has ...

Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...

Things started changing with President Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. Every president has had his critics, but because of the unpopularity of the war and the fact that television cameras ...

The bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 and took effect in 1971. Part of the reason Johnson made the day a uniform holiday was so that Americans had a long weekend "to ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...