On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
I thank Chairwoman Bass for laying out much of the history and reminding us that this is really an opportunity to recognize the resilience, the renewal, and the strength of Africans and African Americans. Through much adversity, as the gentlewoman laid out, African Americans, the descendants of enslaved people, continued to rise from our brutal past. I thank the gentlewoman again for her leadership. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), chairman of our Committee on Education and Labor, who has led so many efforts to educate the public with regard to this 400th year commemoration and, also, the real significance of the Middle Passage as it relates to not only 400 years ago, but today.
