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The statement given by U.S. Attorney John Lausch regarding the McDonald family’s wishes are inconsistent with what Laquan McDonald’s mother and grandmother have told me, directly.

Since her announcement, Norington-Reaves has also been endorsed by retiring Rep. Bobby Rush, The Collective PAC, Democrats Serve, and is on the NewDem Action Fund’s candidate watchlist.

“Pervis Spann paved the path for some of the most notable and iconic entertainers globally and launched the blueprint for Black radio ownership" #wvon

The government funding bill that House Democrats negotiated, and I voted for last night, makes investments where they are most needed — in public education, childcare, broadband, higher education, scientific research, and infrastructure."

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act would, for the first time in U.S. history, designate lynching as a federal hate crime. Despite more than 200 attempts since 1900 to codify federal antilynching legislation, it has never previously been done.

“Today is a day of enormous consequence for our nation,” said Rep. Rush. “By passing my Emmett Till Antilynching Act, the House has sent a resounding message that our nation is finally reckoning with one of the darkest and most horrific periods of our history, and that we are morally and legally committed to changing course. 

“Today is a dark, dark day. Under preposterous and false pretenses, Vladimir Putin has chosen to invade a sovereign democratic nation, a critical and strategic ally of the United States."

“More is at stake for our community, our country and our democracy than perhaps ever before. I’m running for Congress to bring a nonprofit, business and civic lens to this position and provide the kind of proven leadership that our district needs today,” said Jonathan T. Swain. #JonathanSwain

Rep. Rush secured an amendment in the House-passed bill that would require any company applying for the pot of $52 billion in semiconductor incentives to provide data on the diversity of its workforce, which would then be aggregated and published in a biannual report.  #BobbyRush

“Let me be crystal clear. I am standing with Reverend Jackson, Father Pfleger, Will Calloway, and all of you. There is no justice, it seems. This convicted police officer is spending 39 months in prison — 39 months — for killing a Black man here in Chicago,” Rush said at the press conference. #BobbyRush