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It seems the Congressional Black Caucus Members that communicated candidly with theGrio understand the high stakes and far reaching consequences for all Americans, but particularly Black people at home and abroad if the United States Congress doesn't deliver justice and enact swift reforms to secure our democracy.
House Democrats are bracing for a turnover in leadership next year that would amount to a seismic event for the party — one that could empower a new, diverse generation of members while also exacerbating tensions over the direction of the caucus and the policies it should pursue.
(KTVX) – Back in 2016, President Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the proposal to replace former President Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, which would make her the first African American woman to appear on U.S. currency.
The idea to replace Andrew Jackson, who had owned slaves and caused the forced removal of Native Americans through the Indian Removal Act, came from an 11-year-old girl who wrote a letter to President Obama in 2014.
IT STARTED AS an accidental dare. As House leaders met on November 5 in an effort to reach a final deal on both the Build Back Better Act and a bipartisan infrastructure bill, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., suggested the Congressional Black Caucus could be helpful in ending an impasse between a group of holdouts, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week on The Spectrum:
A new leader in Ohio's race for Senate may be emerging.
Jane Timken says new polling numbers have given her confidence, while the former state party chair looks to reunite a fractured Republican party.
"I have the ability to bring people together," Timken said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nina Turner, the former OH-11 congressional candidate who has built a national following as an outspoken progressive, has a warning for her party.
What You Need To Know
Democrats have controlled the White House and Congress for nearly a year, but a long list of campaign priorities remain unfinished
Ohio lawmakers and candidates are frustrated by the slow progress
In early November, Joyce Beatty stood in a hallway in the U.S. Capitol outside a closed-door meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Behind the door, members of the left-wing group of lawmakers debated whether voting for a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill would destroy the group's leverage on a separate, trickier—and to the progressives, even more desirable—$1.85 trillion social welfare package.
Capital allocation to women- and minority-owned asset management firms remains far lower than allocation to other firms, according to a Knight Foundation report released Tuesday.
House Democrats are pushing legislative proposals to task the Securities and Exchange Commission and other financial market regulators with requiring companies to disclose racial and gender pay equity audits, board director demographics and other diversity-related information.
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey Representatives Josh Gottheimer and Mikie Sherrill have renewed calls for the restoration of the State and Local Tax deduction, this time alongside two other members of Congress.
Gottheimer and Sherrill were joined by New York Rep. Tom Suozzi and Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty, as well as President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten and General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters Edward Kelly to tout support for SALT restoration.