Tag: Congressional Gold Medal
Senate Passes Bill to Honor Emmett Till and His Mother
By The Associated Press
Till was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman at a grocery store in rural...
Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies
By Associated Press
Maxine McNair, the last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing, died Sunday....
House Judiciary Committee Passes Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
The House Judiciary Committee has passed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act (H.R. 55), legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) that would...
Hero Capitol Officer Eugene Goodman Hails from Washington, DC
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is a hero from Washington, D.C., who deserves the Congressional...
IN MEMORIAM: Katherine Johnson, a Pioneering NASA Mathematician Featured in “Hidden Figures,” Dies at...
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA physicist and mathematician whose work played a key role in the early successes...