A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Democrat ...

Long, who once advocated for abolishing the IRS, takes over an agency struggling with staffing cuts and leadership turnover.

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent William Lacy Clay Sr., a civil rights leader, legislative powerhouse, and one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black ...

William Lacy Clay Sr.'s career in political office started when he was 28 years old. The civil rights advocate was a strong ...

While in Congress, where he served from 2011 to 2023, the Republican sponsored legislation to get rid of the IRS.

Bill Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, dies at 94.

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Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison is not letting up on his fight for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The U.S. Justice Department says Epstein killed himself in jail and that he did not keep ...

What are the implications of the SNAP-Ed program's elimination? For starters, 1 million Missouri residents were helped by the ...

William Lacy “Bill” Clay Sr., a Civil Rights leader and Missouri’s first African American Congressman, died Wednesday at the ...

William L. Clay Sr., a longtime advocate for civil rights and workers’ rights and Missouri’s first Black congressman, died ...