Lateefah Simon: “I surely don’t want to hear his racist, misogynist rhetoric.”

Senator Murkowski has been one of the leaders in trying to fashion responsible policies toward North Korea. The one area in the world where you have more troops facing each other, with virtually no contact between the two sides in terms of…

When families can’t afford to stay in their communities, when veterans sleep on our streets, when working people are one rent increase away from losing everything, that is a failure of policy and political will.

Dr. Clarence Jones, the speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, told me a story that, during the civil rights protests in the mid-1960s, hundreds of Black, White, and Jewish young people sat at lunch counters throughout the South…

I rise today in defense of every child in this Nation who deserves to enter into a classroom and be treated with dignity, care, and respect. In writing these remarks, I thought of my kindergarten teacher, Ms. Jasko at Claire Lilienthal…