The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been considered the world’s premier law enforcement agency for a century since its founding. It had grown into many different areas since its inception. The first director of the FBI was also its longest serving spanning almost five decades under eight presidents and he was instrumental in creating an effective all encompassing yet sometimes controversial organization.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said he plans to support Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI who has sparked controversy even among some former Trump officials.
President Biden pardons Marcus Garvey, a pioneering civil rights activist, correcting a historical wrong and uplifting his contributions to civil rights.
Key nominations are drawing attention, with particular concern over Kash Patel's nomination to be director of the FBI.
While some Republicans have hailed the pick, Donald Trump’s choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has raised alarm among many national security veterans.
Among his day one actions, President Trump is reviving his first-term efforts to promote classical architecture for federal buildings.
Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95.
Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said he's going to authorize the release of the JFK, RFK and MLK assassination files when he takes office.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., born in Atlanta, Georgia, was a civil rights activist and pastor of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church.
On 7/29/15 in Columbia SC, James Taylor was joined onstage by Charleston choir Lowcountry Voices. Together, they sang “Shed a Little Light” in memory of the victims of the Charleston shooting and their families.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deserves to have his legacy of non-violence, love and justice recalled in the context of Catholic social teaching.