BET is set to air a special this weekend hosted by Soledad O'Brien on criminal justice reform titled American Injustice: A BET Town Hall.

The one-hour broadcast will explore what BET describes as “the stark racial disparities that plague America's criminal justice system and offers solutions.”

O’Brien will be joined by…

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made it official today: The New Jersey Democrat declared he’s running for president  in 2020.

“I'm running for president,” Booker tweeted today, the first day of Black History Month. “Join me on this journey.”

In a video Twitter message about his decision to run (hear it below), Booker said, “I be…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump commended those who apprehended Floridian Cesar Sayoc Jr. in connection with  "packages and devices” that have been mailed to “high profile figures throughout the country and a media organization."

“I am pleased to inform you that law enforcement has apprehended a suspect,” Trump said th…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump this morning declared the “bomb’ stuff” to be “very unfortunate” — for Republicans.

Not long after TV news outlets began reporting two more explosive devices had been found, addressed to two more high-profile critics of Trump, Trump tweet-complained that Republicans had been doing “so…

Two more suspicious packages suspected to contain pipe bombs have been recovered in Florida and New York City, the former addressed to New Jersey senator and presumed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker and the other intended for former National Intelligence Director James R. Clapper Jr.

The package inte…

Cory Booker was an integral part of last week’s wild SCOTUS confirmation hearings, and now he is headed to Hollywood with hat in hand. The junior senator from New Jersey and potential 2020 White House hopeful will hit town this month to raise money for Democratic candidates in the midterms.

The local fundraiser is set …

Dem Sen. Cory Booker pressed wannabe Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as to whether he would break from President Donald Trump in his position about freedom of the press.

“This administration's treatment of the press has been adversarial, let's say, at the least,” Booker said.

“That's a generous way of putting it,” Booke…

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker kicked off SXSW this morning with an impassioned plea for a society that operates on “love,” taking plenty of shots at President Donald Trump and his former Senate colleague-turned-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and even hinting at a potential White House run. The Democrat also used his…