Florida's new Black history curriculum cites "personal benefit" of slavery
The lessons will be taught to sixth through eighth grade students this year.
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The lessons will be taught to sixth through eighth grade students this year.
Kamala Harris was in Minnesota Thursday to discuss jobs created by the administration's investments in electric vehicles.
Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to Minnesota to discuss jobs the Biden administration says were created by its investments in electric vehicles.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited St. Cloud Thursday to tout a clean energy economy.
Kamala Harris is headed to St. Cloud on Thursday. It’s one of several stops planned following next week’s State of the Union address.
The Office of the Vice President says Harris will go to St. Cloud on Feb. 9 to "highlight how the Administration's investments in electric vehicles are creating good-paying, union jobs."
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the funeral of the 29-year-old who died after being beaten by police. "We mourn with you," she told his family.
King spoke about the difficult days ahead during the civil rights movement – but the "promised land" on the horizon. Nichols' stepfather, Rodney Wells, also spoke about the "fight ahead of us" to achieve justice.
Harris will join several other White House officials in Memphis.
"Can we truly be free if families cannot make intimate decisions about the course of their own lives?" Harris said in a fiery speech before a crowd of 1,500 people in Florida.
Local organizers in Washington say three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.
The European Commission's first-ever female leader, Ursula Von Der Leyen, tops the list. Other names include Vice President Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey, and Taylor Swift.
WCCO’s Allen Henry has a look at what the Vice President had to say...and how Minnesota Republicans are reacting.
Harris will attend a fundraiser for the Walz-Flanagan campaign, and join Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan at a forum to speak about abortion rights.
This afternoon the Vice President sat down for an exclusive interview with our Esme Murphy. Harris stressed that despite a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling protecting abortion rights in this state -- Minnesotans should still be concerned that that right could be taken away.
Harris will visit St. Paul on Saturday for a "moderated conversion on protecting productive rights," according to her office.
Harris also spoke at a meeting of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, urging them to "fight back" for abortion rights and against those she called "extremist, so-called leaders" who were attempting to make it harder to vote.
The bill's passage is a significant achievement for Democrats as they look to maintain their hold on Congress in the November midterm elections.
Vice President Kamala Harris planned to tour clean energy laboratories on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Tuesday during her first Wisconsin visit since taking office.
Local and national officials are reacting to the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin.
Amanda Gorman, 22, is the first United States Youth Poet Laureate. And on Wednesday, she became the youngest inaugural poet ever.
Experts say there's still a long way to go until there's equal representation across all of government.
History was made with Kamala Harris the first woman to be named Vice President. That has a whole new generation who can see themselves in that role someday.
WCCO's Christiane Cordero spoke with some local students looking to follow her footsteps in their own way, a promising bunch from Prodeo Academy as well as assistant principal.
Kamala Harris is set to become the nation's next Vice President and a new book from Simon & Schuster dives into her journey from Oakland to the White House.
