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“Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, I think people like to see that we get along.”
WASHINGTON, DC – At a time when political scandals are dominating the headlines and partisan attacks are leading the news, The Ripon Society and Franklin Center for Global Policy Exchange held a breakfast discussion yesterday morning with two Members of Congress who are leading an effort
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 8, 2023) – The National Urban League today presented former Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty with the CBC Champion Award the final day of the League’s Legislative Policy Conference.
BALTIMORE — House Democrats embraced three favorite words during their annual retreat: Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Joyce Beatty started her job as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in Jan. 2021, just months after the worldwide protests over George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis.
Last month, days after her two-year term ended, Tyre Nichols died at the hands of police in Memphis.
On Thursday of last week, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, in partnership with Representatives Kweisi Mfume from Maryland and Joyce Beatty from Ohio, announced three bills highlighting and preserving Black history in classrooms “under attack.”
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As states look to restrict the teaching of race, gender identity and sexuality, social media content creators have stepped in to fill the gap.
Platforms like TikTok and Instagram have become an alternative resource to share histories that many never learned about in school.
Jay Colby, a 29-year-old Houston resident, runs one of those accounts.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) on Wednesday, the first day of Black History Month, reintroduced the Black History is American History Act, which would require Black history to be part of the American History and Civics Academies’ competitive grants.
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell (AL-07), Joyce Beatty (OH-03), and Steven Horsford (NV-04) led 30 of their House colleagues in introducing H.R. 308, the Rosa Parks Day Act, to designate December 1st as a federal holiday honoring Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Rep.
The legacy of civil rights leader Rosa Parks was honored at The Ohio State University’s Fawcett Center last week.
What's happening? The Congressional Black Caucus is making a last-ditch — and very long-shot — push for voting rights legislation in the final days of Democrats’ House majority.