Yvette Clarke: “I was unavoidably detained in my district and missed the vote on September 7, 2011. Had I been present, I would have…”

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.

I rise tonight with my colleagues of the CBC to recognize Gun Violence Awareness Month and to bring attention to the impact of gun violence on Black communities around our Nation. For decades, gun violence has been an epidemic that has had…

We treat everybody the same. It doesn't matter where they come from.

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