Topic: Edward Brooke
Footsteps of nine new revered civil rights icons will be added to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame during the 2012 Trumpet Awards...
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey on May 1, 2008, television personality Barbara Walters confided that she had been involved in a sexual affair with former Massachusetts senator Edward Brooke in the 1970s . Walters was divulging information from her memoir Audition , which ...
Today in HistoryToday is Sunday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2010. On Jan. 10, 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapsed, trapping hundreds in the rubble; during rescue efforts, a fire broke out up to 145 people, mostly female workers ...
US President Barack Obama paid tribute on Wednesday to fellow political trailblazer Edward Brooke, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the Senate by popular vote.In the US Capitol rotunda, Obama presented Brooke, 90, with the Congressional gold medal ...
Former Sen. Brooke reminds lawmakers to work together as he's awarded Congressional Gold MedalWith Democrats and Republicans engaged in a heated debate over health care, former Sen. Edward Brooke, the first black man elected by popular vote to the U.S ...
Oct. 26, 1919, Washington, D.C.), American lawyer and politician who was the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served two terms (1967-79).. Brooke earned his undergraduate degree at Howard University (Washington, D.C.) in 1941 ...
