House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced the death of his father on Monday, saying the elder Jeffries “died peacefully in his sleep” on Sunday. Jeffries’s congressional office ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Saturday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries made history as the first Black lawmaker to ...

Marland Jeffries, father of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), died Sunday, according to the younger Jeffries’s office. Marland Jeffries, 85, was a former substance abuse counselor ...

Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a “vague ... remembering it only as a tough time for his father and claimed his mother shielded him and his brother from the controversies because he was ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries dodged a question about ... because this is not the Republican Party that my mother and father once belonged to. This is an extremist party that we do not ...

While Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is intensely focused ... New York, by his mother, Laneda, a social worker, and his father, Marland, a substance abuse counselor. Spurred by a sharp uptick ...