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Aug 14, 2024 | 
marieclaire.com | Ayanna Pressley
I speak often about what it means to be a Black woman in elected office, representing multiple marginalized identities that are both highly visible and invisible at the same time. That’s the reality when you break hundred-year concrete ceilings and become a “first.”The fact that Kamala Harris is where she is now says everything. I have no doubt that, growing up, she was required to be twice as good for half the credit.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
secure.actblue.com | Ayanna Pressley
None of this is possible without you! Ayanna doesn’t accept contributions from corporate PACs or do a minute of call time — we rely entirely on grassroots donors like you. Pitch in to support Ayanna and help us raise the resources we need to power our campaign. Contribution rulesI am a U.S. citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident (i.e., green card holder).
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
aclu.org | Kendall Ciesemier |Darrick Hamilton |Ayanna Pressley
The “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be our culture’s prevailing narrative, but it actually rarely bears out this way. The truth is that our system is full of inequities that put large swaths of people in our country at significant odds with building wealth.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
blackstarnews.com | Ayanna Pressley
By BlackstarPhotos: December 12 Movement\Sistas’ Place\Solwazi Afi OlusolaViola Plummer, the militant co-founder and chairwoman of the December 12 Movement, know as an ardent activist and educator, will be laid to rest on Jan. 27 after funeral services at the House of the Lord Church, located at 415 Atlantic Avenue, in Brooklyn. Plummer founded the December 12 Movement, in 1986, long with Sonny Carson, Coltrane Chimurenga, Elombe Brath, and Father Lucas.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
blackstarnews.com | Ayanna Pressley
By Center For Policing EquityPhotos: YouTube ScreenshotsCommunities that do not trust law enforcement are less safe. That means that law enforcement that does not work to earn that trust is working against the interest of public safety. This basic common sense—supported by near scientific consensus—is why we are so disappointed that Mayor Eric Adams just vetoed the How Many Stops Act (HMSA).
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
blackstarnews.com | Ayanna Pressley
By Ayanna PressleyPhotos: YouTube ScreenshotsWASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) led a group of 60 House lawmakers in urging the State Department to affirm the United States’ strong opposition to the forced and permanent displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, and to support an increase in humanitarian aid to the region.
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
blackstarnews.com | Robert Koehler |Ayanna Pressley
Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsThe prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, announced on Thursday that his office is probing recent atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region as part of its ongoing Darfur investigation, underscoring the gravity of current abuses. “Targeting civilians, individuals, targeting their homes, targeting their businesses, intentionally targeting children and women, are crimes prohibited by the [ICC’s] Rome Statute,” he said.
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Jul 15, 2023 | 
blackstarnews.com | Robert Koehler |Ayanna Pressley
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia CommonsA mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy. Oppenheimer, of course, is the father of the atomic bomb.
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Jul 15, 2023 | 
blackstarnews.com | Ayanna Pressley
Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWe are often reminded of the “Chicago School” adage: “If it exists, then it must be efficient; otherwise, it wouldn’t exist.” To prove true, this saying must rest, inter alia, on the following premises:• The “existence” was manufactured by economic agents for which the “existence” is efficient. • The economic agents manufactured the “existence” in self-interested fashion using the most favorable inputs.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
blackstarnews.com | Ayanna Pressley
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Facebook\Wikimedia CommonsWASHINGTON – Thursday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2023, bicameral legislation to prohibit the use of the death penalty at the federal level and require re-sentencing of those currently on death row.
