; Whereas 1 in 16 Black people of voting age is barred from actively participating in the democracy of the United States, including through disenfranchisement due to felony convictions; Whereas Black agricultural landowners have been dispossessed from at least 90 percent of their land due to racially discriminatory practices by the Department of Agriculture and private companies; Whereas Black communities bear the brunt of environmental racism and remain disproportionately impacted by extreme temperatures and environmental hazards due to the close proximity to places like chemical plants, oil refineries, trash incinerators, construction sites, and waste dumping sites, as a result of lacking of greenery and tree canopies; Whereas Black women with children remain disproportionately barred from accessing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program; Whereas, while the legacy of slavery still affects our society today, it is rarely taught comprehensively in our school systems; Whereas the school systems of the United States are committing educational malpractice by treating this country’s history of slavery and racial hierarchy as an aberration; Whereas, since January 2021, over 44 States have proposed legislation or taken other steps to ban teaching of the ways in which racism has shaped the law and way of life in the United States, and 18 States have already imposed bans; Whereas Black students are suspended from school at a rate 4 times greater than White students, and Black girls, despite being only 19 percent of preschoolers, make up 54 percent of girls suspended from preschool, effectively funneling Black children into the school-to-prison pipeline; Whereas the legacy of racialized barriers to education is still so prevalent today, that Black women graduate from a 4-year degree with 60 percent more debt than their White male peers