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Newswire: U.S. House holds historic session on reparations legislation

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, April 14, held the first-ever markup of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. The 10 a.m. session on Capitol Hill helped advance legislation first introduced about three decades ago that establishes a commission […]

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