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April 15, 2021

House Panel Votes to Advance Slavery Reparations Bill for First Time in Over 30 Years
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The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to recommend the creation
of a committee to consider reparations for slavery. The reparations bill
was first proposed over 30 years ago but never received a committee vote
- until this week. This is the bill's sponsor, Texas Congressmember
Sheila Jackson Lee.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: "Do not ignore the pain, the history and the
reasonableness of this commission. This is a governmental commission, a
commission that establishes the parameters of a study that provide the
roadmap for the truth of the brutality and the onerous and terrible
burden placed on African Americans and this nation by slavery."



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