infantryman in the trenches of New York politics, hoping to score an upset in the Republican Mayoral primary on Sept. 11, and then a greater one on Election Day. I followed him on a late August day, ...

Wednesday would have been my late husband’s 90th birthday. Herman Badillo, who died in 2014, dedicated a lifetime of public service to New York’s working-class and minority families. Yet the city has ...

A book by the former New York congressman and longtime Hispanic activist Herman Badillo has stirred a lot of talk since being published at the end of last year. In One Nation, One Standard: An ...

Herman Badillo, the first Congressman born in Puerto Rico to represent a district in the continental United States, was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico on August 21, 1929. After a tuberculosis epidemic ...

Republican insider and political power broker Herman Badillo has submitted a bid to turn Brooklyn’s last working port into a 1,500-unit housing development and a campus for charter schools and a ...

Herman Badillo is abandoning his charge for academic reforms at the City University of New York to re-enter the political arena. Mr. Badillo announced this month that he was resigning from the ...

Republican bigwigs wish he’d go away, but Herman Badillo is doing the party a favor by running for mayor. The New York Republican Party, long averse to primaries, has tried to muscle Herman Badillo ...

“The Hispanic community doesn’t care about education as much as other minority groups.” This is the controversial claim of Herman Badillo’s immigrant education reform manifesto, One Nation One ...

Herman Badillo, a Bronx politician who became the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman, died Wednesday morning. He was 85. The office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

Herman Badillo was an American politician who served as borough president of The Bronx and United States Representative, and ran for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican elected to ...