I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
We don't windsurf in Harlem.
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
I am proud to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which has one of the largest and diverse populations in the country.
