Barbara Lee: “Just to clarify and to tell the truth. This is a unit; it is not a mission. It is a unit, mind you, within the embassy.…”

Coach Beam spent four decades lifting up Oakland and mentoring our young people. Now we must honor his memory by continuing the hard work of ridding our community of gun violence. We owe it to every family shattered by this gun violence…

Thank you, Gwen Moore, and I told you: Don't get weary, and you will get there, and you reap what you sow, and you got it. Thank you for being our voice on the Ways and Means Committee. God bless you. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance…

We have an Oakland-Birmingham, Oakland-Selma connection, which is so important because of you, though, Terri.

In 2010 it began to be used widely, primarily by Black Americans to bring awareness to social inequities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBTQ+ rights. Today, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ``woke'' as ``aware of…