Politicians

US Senators By HBCU State Directory – 114th Congress

BREAKDOWN: 46 Senators 19 Democrats & 27 Republicans 5 states are split Republican/Democrat 11 states are all Republican 7 states are all Democrats ALABAMA Jeff Sessions  (Republican) Class II 326 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-4124 Contact: http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ConstituentServices.ContactMe Richard Shelby (Republican) Class III 304 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 Phone: (202) … Continue reading

Books

HBCU Politics™ Political Book Feature – Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

In the mid 1930s, North America’s Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster’s classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the … Continue reading

Books

HBCU Politics™ Political Book Feature – Asia In The Pacific Islands: Replacing The West

A spectacular transition is in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. While the original Pacific people came from Asia, for most of the past century and earlier, nearly all Pacific Islands nations were colonies of ‘Western’ powers. But in the last fifty years or so, Asia … Continue reading