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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.
Washington, DC — U.S. Congresswoman and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (OH-03) issued the following statement following House passage of President Biden's historic Build Back Better Act:
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.
A coalition of conservative religious groups is waging an intensive lobbying effort to remove a nondiscrimination provision from President Biden's ambitious prekindergarten and child care plans, fearing it would disqualify their programs from receiving a huge new infusion of federal money.
Black community leaders urged public and private officials to do more to create affordable housing in Greater Columbus, saying the need has become as dire as ever.
"We are demanding an affordable housing action plan," said Nana Watson, president of the NAACP Columbus chapter, who said there still aren't enough units being built.
The hearing held by the House Financial Services' Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion, centered around discrimination in the financial services industry in relation to banking, housing, employment and lending.
Black members of the LGBTQ+ community Tuesday asked members of Congress to pass civil rights legislation and create greater visibility for LGBTQ+ people of color, saying they face greater barriers in banking, buying a home and other financial transactions than White LGBTQ+ Americans.
Top members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) played leading roles in brokering the deal that allowed the bipartisan infrastructure bill to emerge from House gridlock and reach President Biden's desk.
It all underscores the CBC's growing power in a House only narrowly held by Democrats, as well as the tight ties between the group, the president and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).