Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democratic Senate candidate Barbara Lee of Oakland says the sometimes unpopular stances she's taken in her quarter-century in the ...

Congresswoman Barbara Lee's political journey began with a pivotal encounter with Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to seek a major party's presidential ...

The U.S. House of Representatives was descending into uncharted depths of chaos, with one Republican even fretting that a debate over whether to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy would devolve into a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — All those brutal chemo treatments were finished and her Stage 4 ovarian cancer was gone. Jeanette Lee wanted it to be gone. It had to be gone. That's what she told herself in those deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a major figure in cinema, Lee's work continues to resonate with audiences all over the world and ultimately, greatly benefits ...

Progressive Democrat Summer Lee won election to the House during the 2022 midterm. Defeating Republican candidate Mike Doyle in the 12th Congressional District race, Lee became the first Black woman ...

Oakland’s Rep. Barbara Lee, struggling to gain traction in her U.S. Senate bid against Democratic rivals, ripped Gov. Gavin Newsom over his remarks in an interview Sunday that if incumbent Dianne ...

Sedgwick Cole Jr. [right], Lee’s Global Director of Men’s Design, the Lee design team, and Ouigi Theodore [left] of The Brooklyn Circus worked closely in creating the narrative of Black cultural ...

On his way to Washington and Lee University for his freshman year in 1970, Robert Ford and his father stopped on the way in rural Virginia to get gas. “It was like a movie,” he said. The conversation ...

I don’t know what I had expected from Barbara Lee when an aide handed her the phone, but the laughter I heard certainly wasn’t it. Only a few hours had passed since the longtime congresswoman from ...