Yvette Clarke: “I am really excited about the fact that under President Barack Obama... we are seeing that it might achieve the…”

People don't choose to leave their families and communities, their culture, their language on a whim. Most often people leave because their very lives are at stake.

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight with my colleagues of the Congressional Black Caucus in recognition of national independence, Juneteenth National Independence Day. On June 19, 1865, more than 2 years after President Abraham Lincoln's…

Let me first start by thanking Jennifer McClellan of Virginia and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina for anchoring this evening's Special Order hour on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus. I rise on this day in opposition to President…

Corporations that have profited from Black consumers, relied on Black workers, and amassed wealth in part from Black communities cannot look away while Black political power is dismantled in plain sight.