CBA In the News
Roll Call: Black staffers on the Hill push for racial justice, using their own voices, not their bosses’
“It look LaVontae Brooks a whole week before he could bring himself to watch the video. When he finally did, he was disturbed by what he saw, an African American man slowly dying, gasping for breath and calling for his mother while a police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.”
The Hill: Hill associations push for more diversity in lawmakers' staffs
Congressional associations that represent Hill staffers of color have sent a letter to House and Senate leadership, calling for lawmakers in both chambers to increase the diversity of their staffs in the new session of Congress that starts in January.
NYT: Senators Lead an Increasingly Diverse Nation. Their Top Aides Are Mostly White.
As senators chart a response to a deadly pandemic and an economic crisis that have disproportionately hurt Black Americans and other people of color, the top aides leading their offices are overwhelmingly white — far more so than the country as a whole.