Maxine Waters actually said...

I want to thank again Senator Schatz for holding this important hearing and working with me on this issue.

Today I am here to discuss an issue I care very deeply about, that has been ignored for far too long.

This pandemic has made clear that the ongoing discrimination of the Freedmen descendants can literally mean the difference between life and ...

We will stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago.