Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.
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When I was growing up, 'Ebony Magazine' was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our stories, and my pride.
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In Washington, we need to pass a clean DREAM Act.
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My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead.
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Just as every animal is part of a kingdom, phylum, class, and order, every Dorchester resident has a parish, school, park, and neighborhood that they identify with.
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If elected, I will work with federal leaders to rehouse the non-immigration enforcement functions of ICE - including human trafficking and money laundering investigations - elsewhere in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security while immediately eliminating funding for enforcement and removal functions.
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Raising me as a single parent, my mother held many jobs. Most of them had to do with the betterment and the advancement of our community and society at large. I grew up seeing her active in ministries at our church, with the homeless, as a social worker, with elderly, with youth, as a children's rights organizer with the Urban League of Chicago.
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When I hear 'politics,' I hear 'relationships.'
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Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.
