Rep. Kennedy will deliver Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union speech

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-Mass.), the only member of the famous political family’s third generation dabbling in elected politics, will deliver the Democratic Party’s formal response to President Trump’s State of the Union address next week. Top Democratic congressional leaders announced late Thursday that Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and great-nephew of former Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), will deliver the party’s response after Trump’s prime-time address to a joint session of Congress. […]Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) will bring Danielle McGuire, a historian and author who has written about the late Recy Taylor, a black woman in Abbeville, Ala., who was raped by six white men in 1944. Taylor’s assailants were never indicted.