Congressional Caucus on Black Women & Girls

"Black women deserve a voice in a policy making process that frequently minimizes, or altogether ignores the systemic challenges they face. This caucus will speak up for them."
Rep. Watson Coleman

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Speaker Remarks at Leading From The Black
December 13, 2017
Ifeoma Ike, Co-Founder of the #SheWoke Committee Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Editor-in-Chief of Black Women in the US 2017 Barbara Arnwine, President of the Transformative Justice Coalition Janaye Ingram, Women’s March Boa...
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Rep. Watson Coleman Condemns the House Passage of TrumpCare
May 4, 2017
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the House passage of TrumpCare: “The premature victory lap at White House is the latest illustration that this President an...
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Congresswoman Kelly Slams AHCA: “It Will Cost Families More While They Get Less”
May 4, 2017
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Robin Kelly, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, released this statement following the House vote to strip 24 million Americans of their health insurance: “I’m extrem...
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Congressional Caucus on Black Women & Girls @CBWGCAUCUS Oct 4

"Between 2013 and 2017, the death rate from breast cancer was 40% higher in black women than in white women, despit… https://t.co/JPihjTp4qU
Congressional Caucus on Black Women & Girls @CBWGCAUCUS Sep 23

RT @RepPressley: This is outrageous. Black & brown girls are criminalized at literally every stage of life starting in PRESCHOOL. No chil…
Congressional Caucus on Black Women & Girls @CBWGCAUCUS Sep 19

RT @RepRobinKelly: #OTD Harriet Tubman liberated herself. She’d go on to lead others into freedom, command the raid of Combahee Ferry & adv…