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Marjorie Margolies, 79, was a reporter for WCAU in Philadelphia working on stories about children who were considered 'hard to place.' That's how she met her first daughter, Lee Heh.
In her new memoir/parenting guide 'And How are the Children?,' Marjorie Margolies describes the diverse family she cobbled together while fighting for social equality
Thoughts on the legacy of Neal Smith, Iowa's longest-serving member of the U.S. House, who passed away at age 101.
Of course, Jordan came to the House in 1973 with certain advantages. Her reputation as the first black woman elected to Congress from the South preceded her. And while there were dozens of look-alike white male freshmen, no one was likely to confuse Barbara Jordan with anyone else. Still, it was another black woman—Yvonne Braithwaite Burke of Los Angeles—who was singled out as the real star; Burke had been temporary chairman of the 1972 Democratic Convention and her picture, not Jordan’s, dominated the women’s pages. Burke and Jordan were the two fledgling Democrats singled out by...