Political Quotes

I thought about that often stated mantra that Black history is really America's history, and it is. It came very forcefully to me the last 2 weeks as I watched things happening in St. Paul and Minneapolis: I thought about Selma and…

Thank you very much. I am going to take just a couple minutes to thank all of my colleagues from the Congressional Black Caucus for being here this evening. To reiterate a little of what we have heard here today, I represent a…

I am going to close with something a bit more general because I have been wrestling with this for the better part of the last 4 or 5 years. It is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from the Birmingham City Jail. King, when he wrote that…

It is with great honor that I rise today to anchor this CBC Special Order along with my distinguished colleague, Representative Jennifer McClellan. For the next 60 minutes, members of the Congressional Black Caucus will have an opportunity…