Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of ...

“Edward Brooke steered by his own compass, my friends,” said Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who, like Brooke, served as a senator for Massachusetts.

Edward W. Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be elected to the US Senate since Reconstruction, died Saturday morning in his Coral Gables, Fla., home.

Edward William Brooke III was born Oct. 26, 1919, and reared in Washington, D.C. His mother fed her son’s love of opera by taking him to hear performances in New York.

And all Ed Brooke had to do was coast to a third Senate term. But it was not to be. The black Republican senator, who lived for most of his political career on Beacon Street in Newton Centre ...

Former Sen. Edward Brooke (R-MA) made history in 1966 by becoming the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. The Massachusetts senator talks to Tony Cox about his ...

Ed Brooke, the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, embraced fights with the left and right. But it’s time for civil rights historians to give the pioneering Republican the ...

Edward W. Brooke, who in 1966 became the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate and who influenced major anti-poverty laws before his bright political career unraveled over ...

Edward Brooke, the first black US Senator ever elected by a popular vote, has died. Mr Brooke, who was 95, passed away of natural causes on Saturday at his home in Florida.

Edward Brooke was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Wednesday. Mr. Brooke was the first African-American elected to the US Senate by popular vote.

To be a little trite, as an old politician is apt to be, I believe Edward Brooke’s passing marks the approaching end of an era in politics that will never return: an era of true trailblazers and ...