A U.S. House of Representatives committee is due to consider Wednesday a bill to create a commission to study the history of slavery in the United States and recommend “appropriate remedies.”
Lawmakers have for decades introduced legislation to examine slavery, which began in the U.S. in the early 1600s, as well as discrimination against the descendants of African who were forcefully brought to the U.S. and subjected to slavery.
The House Judiciary Committee says its markup session will be the first for one of those bills.
