U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Dies of Pancreatic Cancer

Jim Vertuno, Associated PressJuly 19, 2024

Longtime U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday, has died. She was 74.

Op-Ed Opinion

Jim Crow 2018: Black Voting Rights under Attack in America

Jeffrey L. Boney, NNPA Newswire Political AnalystSeptember 13, 2018

“This is a discriminatory state law that is antiquated and almost equates to the laws that discriminated against racial minorities decades ago when they were required to pay a poll tax in order to vote…” — Sheila Jackson Lee