Rep. Maxine Waters

Despite countless incidents in the intervening 30 years, police accountability continues to be sidelined in favor of unchecked funding increases.

People don’t have to agree with Waters’ statements or actions, but to claim she’s inciting violence is a logical leap deeply rooted in white supremacy and manipulation of facts.

Maxine Waters stood with protestors in Minnesota over the weekend, enraging Republicans who accused her of “domestic terrorism” for saying that people should stay in the streets.

Donald Trump may be gone from Washington, but Rep. Maxine Waters refuses to forget the damage he did to democracy and American society at large.

Black members of Congress brought the heat as the House voted to impeach a sitting president for the second time in one term.

According to Rep. Waters, the 2008 financial crisis "exposed weaknesses in our regulatory framework" and "brought to the forefront the widespread disparities that exist in a variety of aspects of life for African American families."

Democratic congressional leaders, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Barbara Lee, are calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to address the findings that show the incidence of breast cancer among Black women is equal to that of white women for the first time in recent history.

Trayvon Martin’s parents help spread the message of peace while visiting Better Family Life’s Peace Festival in support of Michael Brown’s parents. The festival drew hundreds and a handful of celebrities, activists, and politcians including: Reverend Al Sharpton, Rapper David Banner, actor and author Hill Harper, and U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Michael Brown Sr. spoke […]

Rep. Maxine Waters did not mince words about the machine behind our nation’s long history with drugs. She recounted the start of the crack epidemic in the 1980s, and the role big banks played in its rise, at the 2013 Congressional Black Caucus: “It was just everywhere, and as I traveled across the country I saw entire […]