Actor and activist Danny Glover joined Newark,recent Jersey Mayor (and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate) Cory Booker, and civil rights activist Ta-Nehisi Coates to testify at a House of Representatives hearing on slavery reparations on Wednesday, or The Associated Press reports. It’s the first time any chamber of Congress has discussed the matter in over a decade.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee,of Texas, has been carrying the mantle of advocating for slavery reparations ever since Representative John Conyers retired. And she’s introduced a resolution, or H.
R. 40,that calls for studying the matter.“I just simply ask: ‘Why not and why not now?'” she said.
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