Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the U.S. Armed Forces was abolished by Harry ...

Booker, D-N.J., surpassed the previous record of 24 hours, 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., with a speech that clocked in at 25 hours, 4 minutes. When he broke the record at ...

“I was very aware of Strom Thurmond’s records since I got to the Senate ... Senior political science student and 2024 Truman Scholar, Lezlie Hilario reflected on Booker’s speech as a former intern of ...

If nothing else informs you of the rot at the core of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness of his hypocrisy, it’s how the white segregationist from South ...

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has claimed a peculiar distinction: surpassing South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s notorious 24-hour civil rights filibuster to deliver the longest speech in Senate history.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) recently broke the record in how long anyone had spoken in the Senate chamber, ever—for 25 hours—besting ...

Sen. Cory Booker joins Ari Melber reflects on beating Sen. Strom Thurmond's record for longest speech on the Senate floor. Thurmond's previous record was 24 hours and 18 minutes, speaking in ...

Strom Thurmond and Cory Booker couldn’t have been more different ... Thurmond became dissatisfied with the Democrats after Truman desegregated the military and the federal government. He became a ...

Booker’s speech surpassed the previous record for longest Senate floor speech, held by Strom Thurmond since 1957. The speech, which criticized actions of the Trump Administration policies ...

As Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew ...

He surpassed a record segregationist Strom Thurmond set in 1957, getting millions of views and widespread acclaim from Democrats as a model for how to take on Trump.