A gifted orator, she spoke at the Nixon impeachment hearings and two Democratic conventions. While not a secret among her friends, she kept her 20-year relationship with Nancy Earl out of the public ...

AUSTIN — In a mostly joyful but sometimes poignant ceremony late Monday afternoon, several Texas lawmakers and members of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority dedicated the Barbara Jordan State Office ...

Director Paris Barclay (Glee) and Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis (The Help) are looking to lend their talents to a biopic concerning the life of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Jordan holds the ...

In July 1974, as the Watergate hearings took place, one voice stood out expressing faith in American ideals. That voice — deep, measured, and unmistakable — belonged to Texas Congresswoman Barbara ...

Regarding "Volunteers clean former slave cemetery in Houston to honor memory of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan," (Feb. 21): Conservative Americans seem to be nostalgic for the good old days of Ozzie and ...

The trailblazing lawmaker gets the honor decades after her death: The Texas Capitol Complex now has named a building after a Black Texan. For the first time, the Texas Capitol Complex has named a ...

Famed Texas Senator Barbara Jordan has been honored with a memorial stretch of highway near Texas State University. The Barbara Jordan Memorial Parkway was dedicated on March 8 for International Women ...

WASHINGTON - Twenty years after Barbara Jordan's death, echoes of the Houston civil rights icon are reverberating through the 2016 presidential election. To a new generation - and many astonished ...

A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers…when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny .” (From Barbara Jordan’s keynote address to ...

A Trump biography for teenagers, a picture book biography of Elizabeth Warren, Justice Sotomayor’s life story for kids, and more of this fall’s books for future voters. By Amy Chozick Put everything ...

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