Yesterday, @TheBlackCaucus commemorated the first-recorded forced arrival of enslaved African people to what would one day become the United States of America.
We held it in a building our ancestors built - the U.S. Capitol - #400YearsLater.
100 YEARS!! On June 4, 1919, Congress, by joint resolution, approved the womanโs suffrage amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The House of Representatives had voted 304-89 and the Senate 56-25 in favor of the amendment.
Real-time U.S. gun violence data* for 2019, as of 6/3:
โข5,907 deaths
โข11,338 injuries
โข247 children shot
โข1,119 teenagers shot
โข156 mass shootings
โข727 armed home invasions
โข582 defensive use incidents
โข604 unintentional shootings
*not including suicides