Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At ...

The Trump administration said yesterday it has drawn up a list of more than 400 properties it considers "non-core" assets.

H.R. 40 was first introduced in 1989 by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and later championed by the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who passed away last year, NBC News reported. The bill ...

John Conyers—the longest-serving African-American member of Congress in history—first introduced the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for the African-Americans Act,” or United ...

Way to fight back, Rep. Pressley! Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced plans to reintroduce H.R. 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African ...

A Democratic representative has reintroduced a bill to study reparations for slavery amid President Donald Trump's sweeping crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

ASKED ME IF I WOULD ASSUME THE MANTLE THAT WAS INITIALLY TAKEN ON BY CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS AND THEN CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON LEE, RESPECTIVELY. THIS WOULD ESTABLISH A FEDERAL COMMISSION TO ...

was elected to Congress in 2022. John Conyers Jr. Rep. John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat, speaks at a 2007 Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill. He was the first African-American ...

And Harry Belafonte dropped by, and John Conyers from Michigan ... And that's why I ended up running for Congress, not because I wanted to, but because nobody else wanted to.

Pressely said during the press conference. Congressman John Conyers, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), first introduced HR 40 in 1969, championing the fight for reparations.