The Speech That Shattered Silence: Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Stand Stirred a Nation

“The name of the game is attention.” And for 25 hours and 5 minutes, Cory Booker held the mic—and the moral high ground.

For nearly three decades, a record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond loomed over the U.S. Senate—a 24-hour filibuster aimed at stopping civil rights. On Tuesday night, that record fell. Not to a g…