U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, meets reporters on Capitol Hill on Nov. 5, 1997, to call on the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Bill Lann Lee’s nomination to head the Justice Department ...

Sharon Sprung, the Brooklyn artist who painted the iconic official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, has a new ...

In 1896, Utah was admitted to the United States as the 45th state. In 1936, Billboard magazine published the first pop music ...

Patsy Takemoto Mink, a proud Pāʻia resident and Maui High School graduate, was a relentless advocate for women’s and marginalized communities’ civil rights, gender equality and education reform.

In 1965, Patsy Mink was sworn in as the first woman of color and first Asian American woman elected to Congress. The Democrat was also the first woman to represent Hawaii in the House of ...