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Legendary Little Rock civil rights attorney and State Representative John Walker died Monday, October 28 at his home at the age of 82. Rep. Walker served in the Arkansas House… Read More

Image courtesy of KAYLA ROBINS / THE SUMTER ITEMU.S. Congressman James Clyburn and his wife, Emily, pose with his portrait at the Mary McLeod Bethune Learning Center and Art Gallery.… Read More

My family in the Bahamas — including cousins, uncles, and aunts who call Pine Wood, Nassau, and Freeport home — is grappling with extensive flooding and property damage following Hurricane… Read More

In a major blow to Republicans who control the Legislature in one of the nation’s most bitterly divided states, a state court panel threw out North Carolina’s state legislative maps… Read More

California became the first state to outlaw racial discrimination based on hairstyle. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill into law that legally protects people in workplaces and K-12… Read More

NBCSL President Gilda Cobb-Hunter was featured in the July 2019 Issue of Public Utilities Forthnightly Magazine. The interview  was conducted by the magazine while Madam President attended the State Legislators'… Read More

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed off on legislation last Friday to make his state one of the few in the country to ban race-based hair discrimination. The New… Read More

On behalf of our President, Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter (SC), the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) expresses its condolences to the Smyre Foster Family on the passing of Gwen… Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. — Leaders of numerous African American organizations recently convened to deal with the upcoming 2020 census that could affect available resources and the political representation of Blacks in… Read More

Please join our President, Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter (SC) in congratulating the 60th Mayor of Dallas, Texas, former State Representative and, NBCSL member Eric Johnson.   Summing up his historic victory,… Read More