Yvette Clarke: “It is certainly my honor and my privilege to be here to both be a witness and to speak on behalf of Ms. Jacqueline A.…”

This is not politics as usual. This is a defining moral moment for our country.

As someone who has called Brooklyn home for decades, I know firsthand the challenges that communities like East Flatbush have faced because of years of disinvestment, a shortage of affordable housing, and longstanding health disparities.

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.

When the gentlelady from New York looks at the screen — if she wants to check her hair, she wants to say anything she wants to to that screen — she has the right to do so.