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Washington Examiner - House Democrats this week proposed legislation to prevent the use of any taxpayer money for President Trump's border wall, which would block Trump from funding the wall through an emergency declaration. Read more »

Los Angeles Sentinel - Washington, DC – In response to President Trump’s State of the Union Address, Congresswoman Gwen Moore introduced H.R. 968, the No Taxpayer Funding for the Wall Act. Read more »

Vanguard - After two days of deliberations on human right to water by over 150 participants drawn from local, national and international civil society and grassroots groups representing a global movement committed to resisting corporate control of water, Nigerian government and governments across Africa, have been told to, among others, reject privatisation projects designed by the World Bank and its corporate partners, describing same as a new form of colonialism. Read more »

Black Press USA - Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore has made a strong and very personal case for lawmakers to keep the Affordable Care Act. Read more »

Inverse - In 1851, a 54-year old Sojourner Truth delivered a testimony with a perennial message at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. She was the only woman who spoke at the convention who had ever been held in slavery, and her speech she argued for the rights of all women. Read more »

Human Rights Campaign - As we mark the start of Black History Month, HRC honors the ways in which Black LGBTQ and allied trailblazers have been and continue to be at the center of the fight for equality, breaking down barriers every day. Read more »

Inter Press Service News Agency - In the heart of Accra, Ghana’s capital, just a few meters from the United States embassy, lie the tombs of W. E. B. Du Bois, a great African-American civil rights leader, and his wife, Shirley. Read more »

Roll Call - On a day when House Democrats returned to discussions about pre-existing health conditions, Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., announced Tuesday she was diagnosed with small cell lymphocytic lymphoma in the spring of 2018. Read more »

The Hill - A Democratic congresswoman announced her cancer diagnosis Tuesday during a hearing focused on ObamaCare's protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Read more »

The Hill - The powerful House Ways and Means Committee used its first policy hearing of the new Congress to hammer Republicans on pre-existing conditions, an issue that helped propel Democrats into the majority during the 2018 midterm elections. Read more »