Congressional Black Caucus Foundation history

In 1981, expansion of the group resulted from a change in the House Administration Committee rules governing caucuses.

In 1986, CBC members were instrumental in getting a bill known as The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 passed in Congress.

In 1988, 41 white Representatives joined the CBC when the caucus instituted its new policy.49

The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) allowed non-Asian American Members to become full-fledged members of the caucus from its founding in 1994.

22Carolyn P. DuBose, The Untold Story of Charles Diggs: The Public Figure, the Private Man (Arlington, Virginia: Barton Publishing House, Inc., 1998): 33.

In 2004, CBC members spoke out against the circumstances surrounding the ousting of Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

The issue of white membership in the CBC would surface again in 2007.

In 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spent more on the caterer for its signature legislative dinner and conference — nearly $700,000 for an event one organizer called “Hollywood on the Potomac” — than it gave out in scholarships, federal tax records showed.

The Dallas Morning News reported in August 2010 that congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson had awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children using foundation funds.

46“The Honorable Ronald V. Dellums Oral History Interview,” Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives, 19 April 2012: 15.

47“The Honorable Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Oral History Interview,” Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives, 22 July 2015: 20–21.