This concurrent resolution, introduced in the House on June 12, 2025, urges Congress to establish a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation. The text lists more than 400 years of examples of racial and ethnic harm in the Nation’s history, including slavery and many specific government actions and policies (for example: Federal Housing Administration practices that encouraged segregation; early Social Security exclusions; discriminatory administration of the GI Bill; the Chinese Exclusion Act; Japanese American mass incarceration during World War II; Federal Indian boarding school policy and land allotment; large-scale discriminatory deportations of people of Mexican descent; and U.S. actions affecting Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Pacific territories). The resolution says the Nation owes a “debt of remembrance” and urges a commission to acknowledge and memorialize those harms and to be a catalyst for change.
The resolution asks Congress to create a federal commission focused on truth, racial healing, and transformation. According to the text, the commission’s goals would include challenging the belief in a hierarchy of human value, embracing common humanity, and working to permanently eliminate persistent racial inequities. The resolution also notes that forming this commission would complement other efforts, such as studies of reparations, referenced in the text.
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The resolution’s text states supporters believe the Nation owes a long-overdue remembrance to people who experienced historic injustices and their descendants. It argues that naming and studying these harms—drawing on models used by more than 40 countries—can advance racial healing, understanding, and transformation. The text also links these efforts to preventing entrenched divisions that could harm democracy and cites contemporary research and tools (including social science and technologies) as reasons for urgent action.
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