Yvette Clarke: “I commend Director Stern, for his energetic efforts to produce the GNDA Strategy by the end of 2010, and for moving…”

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.

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

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.

This bill is a Trojan horse, using the premise of congressional ethics reform to advance a broader effort to restrict access to the ballot box.