The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...

With Lewis’ passing five years ago, we lost a moral compass. But in the halls of the Senate recently, Sen. Cory Booker admired Lewis and embodied his spirit of principled activism. He has answered ...

Cory Booker, fresh off demonstrating that he is ... held forth on the Senate floor for 24-plus hours in 1957 to block passage of the Civil Rights Act; Booker surpassed his feat, protesting not ...

There’s a bitter irony in unrelated headlines coming out of the April Fools’ Day special elections.

Cory Booker, D-N.J.,, speaks during a confirmation ... to filibuster the advance of the Civil Rights Act in 1957. “I'm here despite his speech,” said Booker, who spoke openly on the Senate ...

Cory Booker took a version of his record-breaking ... Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Questioner after questioner asked what they could be doing to show their ...

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey broke the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in chamber history April 1 ...

Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks April 1 on the Senate ... and the world marched toward another war. In 1957, the Civil Rights Act was gutted by a jury trial amendment that protected injustice.