Robin Kelly

I was part of the event and part of the weekend.

We had a a nice little gathering with two doctors that have been on the show here on WCPT and also with Congresswoman Robin Kelly.

And we had a great conversation with them.

We also had the opportunity to just see some of the work that Michelle has been such an integral part of here in Chicago and history in Chicago, but specifically South Side of Chicago.

The FBI says now it's identified common characteristics in those deliveries.

Numerous public officials in at least 20 states have gotten letters, including Illinois congresspeople Mike Quigley, Brad Schneider, Robin Kelly, Jan Schakowsky, and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi.

ABC7's Trey Ward spoke to Congressman Quigley about this alarming case.

Capitol Police now warning all congressional offices, especially local district offices, to look out for suspicious letters that may contain an unknown white powdery substance.

Quigley says the letter his Chicago district office received came with political threats.

This is threatening, intimidating language, uh, vulgar, nasty, uh, obviously directed toward Democrats.

The offices of Congressman Brad Schneider and Congresswomen Robin Kelly and Jan Schakowsky all confirmed their district offices also received suspicious envelopes.

[siren blaring] This comes after there were back-to-back emergency responses at two Cook County buildings downtown Thursday.

Well, US Capitol Police are now telling all congressional offices, especially local district offices, to be on alert for suspicious envelopes.

We know that offices of at least three Illinois members of Congress have received envelopes deemed suspicious, and that includes Congresswoman Robin Kelly.

So far, there are no reports of anyone being hurt.

Just yesterday, there was an emergency response in the Chicago Loop.

Let me step back into this.

In addition to Sowell, Representatives Troy Carter, Steve Horsford, Robin Kelly, and Glenn Ivey are CBC Foundation board members.

Representative Benny Johnson, with Representative Jim Clyburn as co-chair, Amazon's LaDeva Crane, and Exelon Executive Colette Honorable, also sit at the Foundation's board alongside the lawmakers.

So this is how they're on the board.

Stratton is seeking to succeed longtime Senator Dick Durbin after winning a three-way Democratic primary earlier this year against U.S.

Representatives Rajakrishna Murthy and Robin Kelly.

A legal dispute over a forgotten black cemetery in Pinellas County, Florida, is close to being resolved.

The Clearwater Community Redevelopment Agency has approved a proposed $7.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by Frankrum, a company whose property sits on land believed to contain the remains of more than 300 people.

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... to the Congressional Black Caucus, um, which is a little bit of a, "I'm sorry about angering you in the Illinois Senate primary" when he, he supported his lieutenant governor and dumped millions and millions of dollars against a CBC candidate, uh, s- Representative Robin Kelly.

So there's just, like, so many dynamics, and he is trying to get straight with a lot of people-

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One of the things that I get from studying Black freedom thinkers, especially in the abolitionist tradition, is emphasis on the importance of, like, really rigorously understanding, like, where are you in time and space, and what are the conditions that are shaping the context in which you live.

And so with Rabbi Andrew Kahn, who runs the American Council for Judaism, we've been playing with this idea of, like, what happens when you read books of the Hebrew Bible alongside thinkers that influence the way we understand the world, which including Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and for me, Paul Gilroy, and others, Robin Kelly, of course, and many more.

And it just opens up another way to relate to these texts, whether you're into God and into the text or not, and it makes visible the ways in which Zionism has rendered Jewish ideas and Jewish thought and Jewish practice, like, shallow and insincere and uninteresting.

And instead, like, the tradition is demanding, so do you wanna study or not? We run a organizing support project for people who are starting new Jewish institutions that are religious or cultural and looking to take up the role in local civic life and in making the kind of Judaism that we believe is worth passing down, and we're part of the Jewish diaspora movement, and there's, like, a whole range of people who are trying to reassert what this tradition should be for ourselves and in partnership with our neighbors and what it should be in political life following the protests against the genocide, where so many of us found each other and we're like, "We can't let them have this.