The Loss of Legends Cummings and Conyers Highlights the Importance of Congressional Black Caucus
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
"The three of us -- Stokes, Chisholm and I -- came to Washington determined to seize the moment, to fight for justice, to raise issues too long ignored and too little debated. We were described by the media as militant, aggressive new leaders determined to make changes in the way black members of Congress had been viewed in the past." -- U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, Sr., Co-Founder of the Congressional Black Caucus