ICYMI – SENATOR ALSOBROOKS ATTENDS OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER GRAND OPENING

June 22, 2026

CHICAGO, IL - On Thursday, June 18, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) traveled to Chicago to attend the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening.

"[It's] the concept that 'neighbor' is not geographic. It's moral. We have an obligation to care - whether it's in Chicago, whether it's in Washington, DC, whether it's in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, or wherever - we have an obligation to care for each other, whether we have health care or whether we can afford groceries…This is our generation's opportunity to serve, [and] I'm so grateful to have that opportunity to serve. And I was really very grateful to be among the people who were celebrating our country, celebrating President Obama and his family, and looking forward to tomorrow," said Senator Alsobrooks in an interview after the grand opening ceremony.

See more about Senator Alsobrooks' visit to the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening:

Check out social media highlights here, here, and here.

Watch Senator Alsobrooks' Interview with WUSA 9 here.

Watch Senator Alsobrooks' Interview with Fox 5 here.

The Chicago Sun Times, read the full article here.

• "He was like a coach. He sat me down. We talked, and he gave me really great pieces of advice, but one of the things he said to me was to guard against cynicism," Alsobrooks said. "He said, 'You will be inundated with all kinds of information. You'll be inundated with kind of the happenings of the world,' and his advice to me was to really allow myself to remain in the place where I would be free of cynicism."
• Alsobrooks said the center's opening during the second Trump administration is essential, because the country "needs to see each other as neighbors."

The Root, read the full article here.

• Others looked to the past for inspiration. "Coretta Scott King said that freedom is never really won," Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks said. "You have to fight for it and win it in every generation."

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