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.
I hope it will mean something to Black Americans, and I hope that it will mean something to people of conscience, who care about the work of truth and reconciliation and healing.
Our government, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office, has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on Black communities.
I think it’s really important in these times that we call a thing a thing. We’re in a moment of anti-Blackness on steroids, and we refuse to be silent.
I’m working actively to blunt the assaults from a hostile administration that means harm to everyone that calls this country home, but will have a disparate impact on Black Americans.
We have a hostile administration working actively to roll back decades of progress and more recent progress when it comes to our civil rights.
Madam Speaker, good morning and happy Black History Month. Black history is American history, so I rise today to give a history lesson. I think, at moments of inflection for our country, history provides a critical contextualizing. In…
Mr. Speaker, it is another day under a Republican majority and of an antiscience, antifacts healthcare agenda. I don't know which is worse: the cruelty or the ignorance on full display here across the aisle. I would ask my colleagues if…





