Ron Dellums, the son of a longshoreman who became one of the United States’ best-known black congressmen, a California Democrat with a left-wing agenda that put civil rights and programs for people ...

(Reuters) - Former California congressman Ron Dellums, who first won election to Capitol Hill as an anti-Vietnam War candidate and later led a 15-year effort to enact U.S. sanctions against South ...

*The NAACP is saddened at the passing of social justice advocate Ron Dellums at the age of 82. Mr. Dellums served as a former Democratic Congressman and was one of the 13 black lawmakers that founded ...

For more than 20 years, Ron Dellums represented Oakland, Calif., in Congress. Now, liberal voters are hoping he will enter that city's mayoral race. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee ...

(06-07) 19:17 PDT OAKLAND - Ron Dellums was winning Oakland's mayoral race by the slimmest of margins tonight, but with thousands of absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted one by one, ...

I had my first opportunity Thursday to interview Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums face-to-face since he took office nine months ago, and it was much different than I'd expected. I'd been told by colleagues ...

The successful push to change US policy toward South Africa provides a useful blueprint for our current moment. Democratic congressional candidate Ron Dellums, and his wife, Roscoe, left, clasp hands ...

Shifting racial demographics, illegal immigration and a soaring homicide rate are some of the factors in the mayoral race of Oakland, Calif. As outgoing Mayor Jerry Brown focuses on running for state ...