A gifted orator, she spoke at the Nixon impeachment hearings and two Democratic conventions. While not a secret among her friends, she kept her 20-year relationship with Nancy Earl out of the public ...

Houston Congresswoman Barbara Jordan speaks during the House Judiciary Committee’s debate on articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon in 1974. Houston native Barbara Jordan was known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, the Texas Capitol Complex has named a building after a Black Texan, a decades-long politician known as a ...

This whirlwind biographical documentary puts Barbara Jordan, the esteemed congresswoman and professor who died in 1996, front and center as a voice of moral authority. By Nicolas Rapold A Trump ...