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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who sits on numerous House committees, including the Judiciary, Budget, and Homeland Security, has made the reparations legislation her top priority during the 117th Congress.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: “House Has Votes to Pass Reparations Bill”

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This has been a 30-plus year journey,” Congresswoman Jackson Lee declared. “We had to take a different approach. We had to go one...

“There are definitely merits to it in the sense that, if people have been harmed by laws, then there should be a discussion about redress,” Bostic told CNN Business in an interview posted on Monday, March 29.

Black History5 years ago

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President on Reparations: “…There Should Be a Discussion About Redress”

NNPA NEWSWIRE — As federal lawmakers ponder H.R. 40, legislation led by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) that forms a commission to study reparations, some U.S. municipalities...

Black History5 years ago

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40

NNPA NEWSWIRE — "I think if people begin to associate this legislation with what happened to the descendants of enslaved Africans as a human rights violation,...