So we don't forget. But before there was a Black History Month, people started putting those things--Black, Negro, colored, whatever it may happen to be for that time period--in front of schools. They didn't put White in front of there…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms. Plaskett) for offering that to me. There were several things that I heard that were deeply inspiring, yet deeply troubling at the same time. It is amazing how when you start…

W. E. B. Du Bois is quoted as saying: ``The cost of liberty is the less than the price of repression.'' And the cost of liberty has come at a steep price for members of the Black community. But despite this immense challenge the Black…

I thank our assistant leader for his comments. He has such a plethora of information when it comes to the civil rights movement. He knew Reverend Abernathy and a lot of figures that aren't as well known, like A. G. Gaston and James Farmer…

It is absolutely scary. I thank the gentlewoman for participating in this very timely conversation. We needed to have this conversation with the country.

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas for sharing that great information and talking about some of the highlights that Black Americans have made toward our story when it comes to African American History Month this February. I now yield to…

I now yield to another distinguished member of the New York delegation, my colleague, the great Hakeem Jeffries, who has led this Special Order before and who I look to for guidance on how to continue the great work that he and Joyce…

I thank the gentleman for sharing that story about his constituent. Again, it is such a terrible and shameful time for our country, for the world to have seen that. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Columbus, Ohio (Mrs. Beatty).

I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio, a State that knows a lot about voter suppression, also a very international State. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Bass) representing Los Angeles, one of our most…

I thank Representative Bass for her commentary representing the very international city of Los Angeles, again, a city with many immigrants, with many people who have contributed to the greatness and vibrancy of that city that we know as…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. And just like the city of Philadelphia, just like the city of Los Angeles, when we heard from Congresswoman Bass earlier, oftentimes the State of Texas is portrayed through popular culture as not…

I want to thank Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for clearing up a lot of the misconceptions that are being purposely spread out there that this was something that was used by the Obama administration. It absolutely was not. It is being…