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Pelosi 'As We Confront and Combat the...Police Brutality Targeting Black Americans'


FEBRUARY 17, 2021 
PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her appointment of Dr. Joseph Marshall, Founder and Executive Director of Alive & Free in San Francisco, to serve on the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, established by the Congress to study, report on and provide recommendations relating to the conditions affecting Black men and boys.
“ Our nation has been undergoing a reckoning as we confront and combat the racial injustice and police brutality targeting Black Americans, particularly Black men and boys, said Speaker Pelosi.  The Democratic House, reflecting the outpouring of activism across the country, continues to take action to address these cruel disparities, from passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, removing portraits and statues of Confederate leaders and others embodying hate from the U.S. Capitol, and last summer, passing Congresswoman Frederica’s Wilson’s legislation to establish t ....

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