Leslie Brody wrote features on New York City and beyond. Previously, she reported for the Associated Press in Tokyo, the St. Petersburg Times in Tampa and the Record in New Jersey. Shavar Jeffries ...

Ras Baraka, a frequent and impassioned critic of Cory Booker who promised to reshape many of Newark's policies, won the race for mayor, defeating Shavar Jeffries. As voters in New Jersey's largest ...

The goal, according to Shavar Jeffries, chief executive officer of the the non-profit KIPP Foundation, is "breaking cycles of poverty." Keith Harris, a 17-year-old high school senior at KIPP DC ...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Friday slammed President Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian Institution, which he called a shameful effort to whitewash American history. The Brooklyn Democrat asked ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit Denmark amid U.S. tensions with the nation and its territory Greenland, he announced Tuesday.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Friday demanded answers about the arrest of a local Wisconsin judge by federal authorities for allegedly helping an immigrant avoid arrest. “The Trump administration must ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is urging Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to reject an executive order from President Trump that called to restore “truth and sanity” to ...

After months of internal party turmoil, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries believes the Democratic Party emerged from the first quarter of the year in a strong position and with plenty of ...

Dem House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday rejected a Democratic National Committee big’s controversial plan to fund primary challenges against passive party members in safe districts.

John C. Jeffries Jr. holds a special place in the history of the University of Virginia School of Law. A star student, professor, dean and adviser to the president of the University, the 1973 UVA Law ...