CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE VOTES TO BRING BILL RELATED TO SLAVERY REPARATION TO US HOUSE

Highlights

• This vote by a congressional committee is first-ever such on the issue of reparations for the descendants of enslaved people in the country of the United States

• While no Republicans voted in bringing this bill in front of the whole House, it was passed with a vote of 25 to 17

In order to bring a bill on federal slavery reparation payments to the African-Americans, to the House of Represent....