Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
🚨#BREAKING: Over 10,000 flower bulbs donated by Dutch Grown, a floral company in the Netherlands, have started to bloom in a once-destroyed park in Swannanoa NC.
The company said, "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. That belief is our gift to Western North Carolina."
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
USS Gravely, just deployed for a border mission, is named after Vice Adm. Samuel Gravely Jr., a trailblazer who had numerous firsts as an African American in the Navy.
He's buried at Arlington National Cemetery.