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WASHINGTON — William Lacy Clay Jr. remembers being 12-years-old and standing beside his father launching his campaign bid one day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the spring of 1968.
It was a historic race for the House: William Lacy Clay Sr. became Missouri's first Black representative elected to Congress, in part because of redistricting that gavehim a seat containing the state's largest concentration of Black voters.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The mayor-elect of Cleveland is calling on the Department of Justice to reopen their investigation into the shooting death of Tamir Rice on the seventh anniversary of the 12-year-olds killing.
"Seven years ago, Tamir Rice was killed while playing with a toy gun," Bibb wrote. "I join Cleveland City Council, U.S. Senator @SherrodBrown and others in calling on the Department of Justice to reopen the investigation. Today, we remember Tamir as the quest for justice continues."
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for Joe Biden.
The Democratic president had just signed into law the most significant infrastructure package in generations. And he had done it by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, just as he promised during last year's campaign. But when Biden arrived in New Hampshire last week to promote the $1 trillion package at the foot of a crumbling bridge, not all of his VIP guests were in the mood to celebrate.
In an effort to stall and frustrate Democrats seeking to pass a $2 trillion social spending bill, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy took to the House floor Thursday night and delivered a meandering speech which drew audible jeers numerous times from Democrats seated in the chamber.
A Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on Friday, siding with the teenager's claims that he acted in self-defense during the chaotic night in Kenosha last summer that left two men shot dead and a third wounded.
The case quickly became a political flashpoint amid the 2020 presidential campaign and months of protests against police brutality and racial injustice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Whether it is expanding child care, making sure that children have access to clean water or investing in broadband and public transportation, most everything in the $1 trillion infrastructure law will benefit African-American communities, according to some federal lawmakers.
You can't manage what you don't measure, the saying goes.
In the financial services sector, where executives have long lamented a lack of employee and management diversity, part of the problem has been a failure to track and publicize figures on employment demographics that could shed valuable insights on what's working and what's not as firms try to field a more representative workforce.
House Financial Services Committee members recently advanced a series of bills that seek to protect investors, ensure fair employment opportunities for justice-involved individuals, and reform credit union governance.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), signaled on Tuesday that the group was more than ready to use its influence to ensure that President Biden's $1.75 Build Back Better package passes through the House before Thanksgiving.
"We believe that we will be again at the table because we know it makes a difference," the Ohio Democrat said when questioned by The Hill on a press call with White House Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond.
House Democrats have returned to the Capitol with plans to vote as soon as Thursday on President Joe Biden's roughly $1.75 trillion social spending bill, with the party's warring factions seemingly appeased.