Yvette Clarke: “I am glad that we are having this hearing and we have decided to kick it off this week with the hearing on net…”

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.

Not since Jim Crow have we seen this level of systematic disenfranchisement of Black voters.

Silence in this moment is not neutrality — it is complicity.

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.