A member of the Brothertown Indian Nation has written to the head of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs supporting his efforts to fix the federal recognition process and condemning the "structural violence" of federal Indian policies...

(Quote) He thought he was good. Whites who embrace his values think they are too. You're wrong. All yours done to others is coming back. When it starts, think of yours did to us & never made up for it. Every black male should say: I killed him too."

An unusual day-before-Christmas vote in the Senate to enact health care legislation will end what President Obama described Wednesday as "a grueling process" -- and will set the stage for another.

My husband was on parole for a crime based on someone elses lies. He did 17 years of a 40 year sentence. He lost his job and was afraid of...

Since Robert C. Byrd arrived in the Senate in 1959, the senior senator from West Virginia has cast more than 18,500 votes

Buried in the billions of dollars of spending on new weapons and other items in the 2010 defense appropriations bill is a little-noticed expression of regret over how the U.S. had in the past used its power. The bill contains an "apology to Native...

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Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured.

A judge Monday ordered the NYPD to turn over the racial breakdown of all people shot at by police officers between 1997 and 2006. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the NYPD in 2008 for racial data about shooting victims.

Almost four decades later, Mr. Warren will be inaugurated next Friday as Newton's first African-American mayor, taking charge of a city where blacks still make up only 3 percent of the population but where skin color played virtually no role, he said,