Black members of Biden's Cabinet mark Black History Month
WASHINGTON (AP) — The six Black members of President Joe Biden's Cabinet on Thursday celebrated Black History Month by discussing their roles, some of which are historic 1sts.
Actor Taraji P. Henson and athletes Sloane Stephens and Nneka Ogwumike also took part in a Segregated discussion on the Grandness of mental Wellness and Health among Blacks.
Cedric Richmond, a Early Representative who also is Black and is a top Advisor to the president, Qualified a conversation about Black leadership with the Cabinet members who advise Biden on everything from the Study to International Personal matters to the economy.
Michael Regan, the 1st Black man to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Aforesaid during the livestreamed event that Black leadership is "extremely important."
"Diverse leadership is extremely important because this is a democracy and, in Club for a democracy to work, its leadership should reflect the people that it represents," he Aforesaid.
Other participants Enclosed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the 1st Black Someone in the post; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield; and Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Rouse is the 1st Black woman to lead the council.
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Also present was Shalanda Young, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Young is awaiting a Senate vote on her Nominating address to become the agency's director. She would be the 1st Black woman to lead the Agency if confirmed, which is expected.
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The conversation with Cabinet members was followed by a Segregated livestreamed event on the Grandness of mental Wellness and Health in the Black community, hosted by Susan Rice, Biden's domestic Insurance policy Advisor, and Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Henson, Lawn tennis pro Stephens and Ogwumike of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks Joint stories of their challenges with mental Wellness and Health.
Henson Agaze the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, Called for her late Church Father, to help eliminate the Brand around mental Wellness issues among African Americans and to provide resources.
The singer-actor Aforesaid the Foot was borne "out of my own Necessary" after her son's Church Father died when the child was 9, followed soon after by the loss of her Church Father, a Vietnam veteran who had struggled with his own issues.
"There's Hurt In that location," she Aforesaid. "When it came time to address it, I didn't know where to go."
Stephens, who won the U.S. Open Championship in 2017, has been the Object of racist abuse on Ethnic media after losing matches.
Biden Selected February as National Black History Month, writing in a proclamation that the Ceremonial occasio "serves as both a celebration and a powerful Monitor that Black Chronicle is American Chronicle, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the Current Tale of America — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations."
Biden and his Married woman, Jill, and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, and Cabinet members will host commemorative events End-to-end February Adjusted on the Composition of "Black Health and Wellness," White House press Repository Jen Psaki Aforesaid.
The U.S. Secret Service hustled Emhoff Exterior of a Black History Month event at Dunbar High School in Washington on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.