It is ensuring that we do more than just recover to a pre-COVID unjust status or normal.
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.
Abortion care is a constitutional right, and this pro-choice Democratic majority... can and must do everything possible to protect and guarantee it as such.
for our most marginalized communities, the right to abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade has really only been a right in name only.
I was proud to see the House take swift action to pass the Women's Health Protection Act last week.
These misguided bans will not actually prevent all abortions. They simply put safe and necessary abortion care out of reach for our most vulnerable.
Texas' horrendous and extreme S.B. 8 abortion ban underscores the urgency of this moment.
It is critical that Congress legislate and combat these attacks once and for all.
It is unacceptable for communities of color to bear the brunt of white supremacist violence at the hands of domestic terrorists.
The Federal Government certainly has a significant role to play in deterring and ending domestic terrorism at the hands of violent white supremacists.
I, along with many of my colleagues, have been sounding the alarm for many years about rising bank branch closures in predominantly Black and Brown communities, and the negative impact that this will have on small businesses owned by…
In the district I represent, the Massachusetts 7th, Somali immigrants living in Roxbury are directly targeted.
It is no surprise, but egregious nonetheless, that Black-owned businesses received only 2 percent of PPP loans from the CARES Act.





