Editor's note: Excerpted from “What The Hell Do You Have to Lose? Trump’s War on Civil Rights. After President Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, President Lyndon Baines Johnson made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEKIN, Ill. (WMBD) — The Dirksen Congressional Center in Pekin showcased rarely seen documents on Tuesday to celebrate the 50th ...

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He’s known for his dead-on impressions of former Presidents Clinton and Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” but now Darrell Hammond is poised to play another famed political figure on stage. Hammond will ...

“One man clothed in righteousness is a match for all the hosts of error,” said Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, perched on a table, to reporters. “And ...

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Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, who represented Illinois from 1950 to 1969, played a key role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was an ally of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and a powerful ...

Much has been made – quite rightly, in my opinion – of the U.S. Supreme Court’s telling reliance upon the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in its recent decision protecting LGBTQ people from workplace ...

PEKIN, Ill. (WMBD) — A new play at Pekin High School is telling the untold story of a Pekin native who rose to one of the highest offices of the land to a younger generation. ‘The Honorable Mr.