The impact that these threats have on our HBCU communities, it is devastating.

The bomb threats facing HBCUs really must be properly contextualized by America's long history of anti-Blackness and white supremacist violence against our community.

That sounds like corporate price gouging.

These price hikes are rooted in corporate greed, plain and simple, and low-income families will continue to pay the highest price.

investments with the American Rescue Plan were used--directed toward community health centers who were critical in combating health disparities, affordable housing, free transit, bonus payments to low income essential workers

As we approach the two-year mark since the onset of the pandemic, we have to be candid about its disproportionate impact on the lives of Black, brown, indigenous, immigrant, and low income communities.

Cities like Chelsea, Everett, and Randolph in my district were among the most severely impacted communities and they needed additional relief.

The American Rescue Plan put forth by the Biden/Harris administration and passed by Democrats in Congress, was a lifeline for families across the Massachusetts 7th congressional District.

This is such an important discussion on ensuring that minority- and women-owned small businesses share in the benefits of any long-term economic recovery.

And is that exactly why we need to be intentional in ensuring that minority- and women-owned cannabis businesses are not left behind in our recovery efforts, that there will be a more intentional and deliberate amount?

Ensuring Black and Brown folks can start and sustain cannabis businesses is a matter of economic and racial justice.

Congress looks to you, the attorney general of the United States, to enforce the constitution and our voting rights laws with unmitigated vigor and tenacity. We write to urge you to leverage the full might of the Department of Justice to…