LATEST CLIENT NEWS:
July 2025: Congratulations to the Port of Detroit (Michigan) for obtaining $1.613 million for the Detroit Windsor Tunnel Project in the FY2026 Senate Transportation/HUD Appropriations Act.
July 2025: Congratulations to the City of Sterling Heights (Michigan) for obtaining $1 million for the Red Run Park Bridge Project in the FY2026 Senate Transportation/HUD Appropriations Act.
July 2025: Congratulations to the Port of Cleveland (Ohio) for obtaining $1.2 million for the Irishtown Bend Project in the FY2026 House Transportation/HUD Appropriations Act.
July 2025: Congratulations to Macomb County (Michigan) for obtaining $8 million for the Mound Road Project in the FY2026 House Transportation/HUD Appropriations Act and $750,000 in the FY2026 Senate Transportation/HUD Appropriations Act.
This Week's Trivia Question:
Last Tuesday before a large crowd, congressional officials unveiled the newest statue in the Capitol that replaced a statue of Robert E. Lee that had been recalled by then-Gov. Northam of Virginia in Dec. 2020. Whom does the new statue honor: (1) 17th century Native American celebrity Pocahontas; (2) civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns; or (3) Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to serve as president of a U.S. bank?
Answer:
The statue is a likeness of Barbara Rose Johns, who was 16 when she mobilized hundreds of students to walk out of Farmville, Virginia's Robert Russa Moton High School in 1951 to protest its overcrowded conditions and inferior facilities compared to those of the town's white high school. The fight was taken up by the NAACP and eventually became one of the five cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 ruling that declared school segregation unconstitutional.