Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced a resolution to designate August 20th as Slavery Remembrance Day. Congressman Al Green also reintroduced the Original Slavery Remembrance Day Resolution in the House.
“The Original Slavery Remembrance Day Resolution was created to commemorate the lives of enslaved people in our country and to condemn the horrors they faced. This resolution is an important step to ensuring we never forget this dark period or its lasting legacy,” said Senator Warren.
“I am honored that the Honorable Senator Elizabeth Warren has reintroduced the Original Slavery Remembrance Day Resolution in the United States Senate. A similar resolution passed in the House of Representatives on July 27, 2022. I urge the Senate to act with resolve and pass this resolution so that Slavery Remembrance Day may be recognized, alongside other events long commemorated by the Senate, as worthy of recognition among our nation’s most solemn commemorations of human suffering, and to ensure that the suffering of the enslaved is never forgotten and never repeated,” said Congressman Al Green.
This legislation is cosponsored in the Senate by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii).
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