African Americans have had to struggle to obtain what for others has been unquestionably understood as a God-given right.
It did not end with the Civil War. It did not end with Baker v. Carr.
The enslavement of people of African-American descent in America was started before we were a country, in 1619, and it h...
I mentioned seeing these movies that were Chadwick Boseman's movies.
It is patently unfair.
It was using Black people for the political power of southerners who wanted to have that power mostly to keep slavery le...
H.R. 40 would create a commission to study the history of slavery in America, the role of the Federal and State governme...
Our colleague, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who is a member of the subcommittee, is the current lead sponsor of th...
Back in 2007, I introduced H. Res. 194--that was my first year in Congress--an apology by the House of Representatives f...
An honest reckoning with the Federal Government's role in protecting the institution of slavery has been the leading pri...
It is only fitting then that in the midst of a continued reckoning over police treatment of Black people and a pandemic ...