With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes his mark

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. “He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He said he […]