Saturday, August 16, U.S. Congressman Al Green (TX-9) hosted his 4th Annual Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update Breakfast, with the rousing theme of “We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Back Now,” at the Wyndham Hotel near NRG Park.
The annual Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update Breakfast remains a focal point of Congressman Green’s Conscience Agenda, which includes the designation of August 20 of each year as Slavery Remembrance Day. This day serves as a commemoration for the lives that were sacrificed for over 240 years to make America great. It also serves as an ever-enduring reminder of the brutal history of slavery and the efforts to prevent that evil history from repeating itself.
This particular Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update was crucial and timely, as it highlighted the current White House administration’s efforts to advance policies rolling back civil rights, restricting voting access, erasing Black history, and racially gerrymandering districts across the state to dilute minority representation in Congress.
Special guests included prominent clergy, public officials, and civic organizations from across the Greater Houston area. Program participants included Reverend Max Miller, Bishop James Dixon, Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, Dr. Ruth Simmons, Judson W. Robinson III, Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Sandra Massie Hines, and several others.
Congressman Green’s Conscience Agenda honors over 240 years of Black lives who were sacrificed to make America great. It recognizes the month of August as Slavery Remembrance Month and calls for a Congressional Gold Medal for the enslaved, America’s economic foundational mothers and fathers.
“This year’s 4th Annual Slavery Remembrance Day theme arrives at a time when many of the current administration’s policies infused with racism pose a risk of regressing to a more troubling era in American history,” said Congressman Green. “We must honor the more than 10 million lives sacrificed to slavery by continuously sharing the true history of Black people enslaved in America.”
State Representative Ron Reynolds, who “broke quorum” and has been out of state with his fellow Democratic colleagues trying to prevent the passage of a new redistricting map, made a surprise appearance at the event.
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