This week in history: Robert Clifton Weaver, first Black U.S. Cabinet member
Weaver noted there was a great difference between the income of most African Americans and the cost of living.
Today is 75th anniversary of Rep. Barbara Jordan's birth (with video)
The daughter of a minister and domestic worker, Barbara Jordan was the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate and the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress from the deep South.
