Democrats know that being the minority party won’t yield them legislative victories on issues like reparations for Black Americans. But some Black lawmakers are continuing to push legislation in hopes that they can keep the momentum alive.
Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania said she plans to reintroduce the Reparations Now Resolution later this week to give activists “a mechanism to organize around.”
“There’s no bill that we know we’re going to introduce this term that would be a check on Donald Trump’s power, or that would stop his power trip, that he’s going to sign into law,” Lee told NOTUS. “But it doesn’t stop our responsibility to introduce it, to fight for it, to organize around it.”