Across the country, scholars are calling out, rightfully so, how banning books on race and LGBTQ issues from our schools are impeding their education and their own personal development and growth.
Ayanna Pressley
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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.
These book bans are really no more than a malicious political campaign of erasure, erasure of civil rights history...
Would you at least be willing to go on record and say that you would review this surcharge policy?
I think the detrimental impacts of these fees and its governments' abilities to effectively combat the pandemic is not really up for debate.
Being poor in America is expensive. Millions of families and workers are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to make ends meet due to unlivable wages, a lack of affordable health care, the absence of paid leave, and many other policies…
Homes in Black neighborhoods are valued 23 percent less, on average, than those in comparable White neighborhoods.
When we say, 'Black Lives Matter,' that must also mean that Black communities matter, Black businesses, Black homes, and Black wealth matters.
We cannot separate the rampant appraisal bias against Black homeowners from our nation's history of segregation and redlining.
The systemic evaluation of Black communities and homes adds up to around $156 billion in lost equity.





