Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at making it easier for relatives to become a child's foster parents.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced more than $40 million in state transportation funding has been awarded to cities and counties ...

As a teacher who grew up in a small Southern town, I know the risks of giving parents veto power of kids’ education.

Responsible government officials, organizations must stand up to his strong-arm tactics and human and civil rights violations ...

Yes, pushing back against Donald Trump is essential. But to do that, the Democrats must turn themselves into a fighting force ...

Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...

Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.

At the Democratic National Convention in August 1976, one-term Democratic governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter made the case for ...

Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to convince a Congressional committee to confirm him as the head of the Department of ...

What do George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have in common? Each would have made a ...

Stepping down as agriculture secretary, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is stepping up as the first CEO of the World Food Prize ...

This week, as the confirmation battle over the Trump nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human ...