Original Black History Month Resolution of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced
Summary
Commemorating Black History Month and highlighting the 2025 theme "African Americans and Labor". This resolution would recognize Black Americans' achievements, encourage continued public celebration, and frame 2025 around labor's central role from slavery through sharecropping, convict leasing, the Great Migration, union organizing, and the civil rights movement while citing an estimated $5.9 trillion valuation of enslaved labor in 2016 dollars, noting more than 10,000,000 lives lost to slavery, and calling out modern disparities such as a 2023 median weekly pay of $878 for Black workers versus $1,059 for other workers and a 6.3% unemployment rate for Black men in January 2025.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Green, Al [D-TX-9]
TX • D
Cosponsors
Adams
NC • D
Sponsored 3/3/2025
Rep. Amo, Gabe [D-RI-1]
RI • D
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Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]
AZ • D
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Barragan
CA • D
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Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
OH • D
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Bishop
GA • D
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Bonamici
OR • D
Sponsored 3/3/2025
Rep. Brown, Shontel M. [D-OH-11]
OH • D
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Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
CA • D
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Rep. Bynum, Janelle S. [D-OR-5]
OR • D
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Carson
IN • D
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Rep. Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2]
LA • D
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Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
HI • D
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Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]
NY • D
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Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
MO • D
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Cohen
TN • D
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Costa
CA • D
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Crockett
TX • D
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Davis (IL)
IL • D
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Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]
PA • D
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Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17]
PA • D
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Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10]
CA • D
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Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
MI • D
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Elfreth
MD • D
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Espaillat
NY • D
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Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3]
PA • D
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Rep. Fields, Cleo [D-LA-6]
LA • D
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Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]
AL • D
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Fletcher
TX • D
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Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8]
CA • D
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Rep. Garcia, Robert [D-CA-42]
CA • D
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Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
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Grijalva
AZ • D
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Hoyer
MD • D
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Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
CA • D
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Jackson (IL)
IL • D
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Johnson (GA)
GA • D
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Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
IL • D
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Kennedy (NY)
NY • D
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Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]
IL • D
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Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]
OH • D
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Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12]
PA • D
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Liccardo
CA • D
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Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
MA • D
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McClellan
VA • D
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McCollum
MN • D
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McGovern
MA • D
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Rep. McIver, LaMonica [D-NJ-10]
NJ • D
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Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
NY • D
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Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
NY • D
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Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
WI • D
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Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]
MA • D
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Mullin
CA • D
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Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-12]
NY • D
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Neal
MA • D
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Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
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Ocasio-Cortez
NY • D
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Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]
MN • D
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Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
MA • D
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Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]
IL • D
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Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
OR • D
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Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5]
PA • D
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Sewell
AL • D
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Soto
FL • D
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Rep. Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA-10]
WA • D
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Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
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Thompson (MS)
MS • D
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Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
NV • D
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Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
MI • D
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Rep. Tokuda, Jill N. [D-HI-2]
HI • D
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Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
NY • D
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Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]
NY • D
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Trahan
MA • D
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Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-52]
CA • D
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Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
TX • D
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Rep. Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
NY • D
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Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
CA • D
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Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
NJ • D
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Wilson (FL)
FL • D
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Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-CA-46]
CA • D
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Friedman
CA • D
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Swalwell
CA • D
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Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28]
CA • D
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