IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 942 
Recognizing and celebrating the significance of Black History Month. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2022 
Mr. GREEN
of Texas (for himself, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. 
AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. BASS, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BISHOP of 
Georgia, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. BOURDEAUX, Mr. BOW-
MAN, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, Ms. BROWN of Ohio, Ms. BROWNLEY, 
Ms. BUSH, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CAR-
TER of Louisiana, Mr. CASE, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 
COHEN, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. COOPER, Mr. CORREA, Mr. COSTA, Mr. 
CRIST, Mr. CROW, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. 
DEAN, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. DEUTCH, 
Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, 
Ms. ESHOO, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANS, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, 
Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. GOMEZ, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. 
HIGGINS of New York, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. JACOBS of California, Ms. 
JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. JONES, Mr. KAHELE, 
Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KEATING, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. 
KILMER, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. 
LANGEVIN, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. LAWSON 
of Florida, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. LEVIN 
of Michigan, Mr. LEVIN of California, Mr. LIEU, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. 
LYNCH, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. SEAN PATRICK 
MALONEY of New York, Ms. MANNING, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 
Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. 
MENG, Mr. MFUME, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. 
MOULTON, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. NEGUSE, 
Ms. NEWMAN, Mr. NORCROSS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. O’HALLERAN, Ms. 
OMAR, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. 
PETERS, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. PLASKETT, Ms. PORTER, Ms. PRESSLEY, 
Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, 
Mr. RUSH, Mr. SAN NICOLAS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. SARBANES, Ms. SCAN-
LON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. DAVID SCOTT 
of Georgia, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. 
SIRES, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. STEVENS, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. 
SUOZZI, Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. THOMPSON of 
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Mississippi, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Ms. TITUS, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. 
TORRES of California, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. 
TRONE, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. 
WELCH, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Ms. WILSON of Florida, and Mr. 
YARMUTH) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing and celebrating the significance of Black History 
Month. 
Whereas the theme for Black History Month 2022 is ‘‘Black 
Health and Wellness’’, which considers activities, rituals, 
and initiatives that Black communities have done to be 
well; 
Whereas Black communities continue to face health chal-
lenges unique in their severity in the United States; 
Whereas COVID–19 data show that Black-American popu-
lations in the United States experience higher rates of 
COVID–19-related hospitalization and death compared 
with non-Hispanic White populations; 
Whereas, in Michigan, Black Americans are 133 percent 
more likely to contract the novel coronavirus and are 
overrepresented for deaths related to COVID–19, ac-
counting for 40 percent of all deaths statewide; 
Whereas structural racism and residential segregation have 
forced a disproportionate number of Black Americans 
into low-income neighborhoods that make social isolation 
practices more challenging to implement due to physical 
crowding and lack of resources; 
Whereas a national analysis of county-level data confirmed 
that these adverse socioeconomic conditions have caused 
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counties with higher proportions of Black Americans to 
have higher numbers of COVID–19 cases and deaths; 
Whereas inequities in education, employment, income, polic-
ing and incarceration, health care access, chronic stress, 
and multiple other factors that affect health increase, to 
varying degrees, Black Americans’ risk for morbidity and 
mortality in general; 
Whereas on average, although Black women are younger 
(36.1 years) than United States women overall (39.6 
years), they have a higher prevalence of many health con-
ditions, including heart disease, stroke, cancers, diabetes, 
maternal morbidities, obesity, and stress; 
Whereas infant mortality rates for children born to non-His-
panic Black women are twice as high as those for chil-
dren born to non-Hispanic White women; 
Whereas it is estimated that non-Hispanic Black women are 
three to almost four times more likely to die while preg-
nant or within one year postpartum than their non-His-
panic White and Latina counterparts; 
Whereas research suggests that chronic exposure to environ-
mental stressors, such as racism, across the life span con-
tributes to the weathering of the health of Black women, 
increasing their allostatic load and, consequently, compro-
mising their reproductive health; 
Whereas obesity is a major source of morbidity and mortality 
for all United States populations, but non-Hispanic Black 
Americans have a higher age-adjusted prevalence of obe-
sity than any other racial/ethnic group, with estimates 
ranging from 34 percent to 50 percent; 
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