Historic 4th Annual Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update: “We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Back Now”

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On Saturday, August 16, 2025, Congressman Al Green will host the historic 4th Annual Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update Breakfast under the theme “We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Back Now.” Special guests include prominent clergy, public officials, and civic organizations from the Greater Houston Area. Congressman Al Green’s Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update is crucial and timely as it commemorates the Congressional designation of August 20th as Slavery Remembrance Day. This event is critically important as the current administration advances policies that roll back civil rights, restrict voting access, erase Black history, and racially gerrymander to dilute minority representation in Congress. Congressman Green’s Conscience Agenda stands firm in honoring over 240 years of Black lives sacrificed to make America great. It recognizes the month of August as Slavery Remembrance Month, and calls for a Congressional Gold Medal for the enslaved, America’s economic foundational mothers and fathers. Congressman Al Green stated, “This year's 4th Annual Slavery Remembrance Day theme arrives at a time when many of the current administration's policies infused with racism pose a risk of regressing to a more troubling era in American history. We must honor the more than 10 million lives sacrificed to slavery by continuously sharing the true history of Black people enslaved in America. We must protect the advancements our ancestors lived and died for to prevent history from repeating itself. I will continue fighting for Congress to award a Congressional Gold Medal (its highest honor) to the enslaved, as it did for Confederate soldiers in 1956. We’ve come too far, sacrificed too much, suffered too long to turn back now. Forward ever – backward never!”