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COMMUNITY VOICES: Trump Removes MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free National Park Dates, Adds His Birthday

By Hodari Brown, Contributing Columnist On November 25, 2025, the National Park Service (NPS), under the direction of the U.S. Department of the Interior overseen...

America’s Maternal and Infant Health Crisis Deepens

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent The March of Dimes has released its 2025 Report Card, and across the United States, the...

How NBA Legend Isiah Thomas Is Rewriting the Rules of Wealth, Industry, and the American Dream

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent There is something tender and knowing in the way Isiah Thomas speaks about the earth. It...

Nicki Minaj To Speak At U.N. With Trump Ambassador

Nicki Minaj is teaming up with President Donald Trump's United Nations ambassador to address alleged violence against Christians in Nigeria. On Tuesday (November 18), Nicki...

Government Shutdown Ends After 43 Days, But Fallout Still Felt Across Black Communities

The federal government’s funding stalemate has ended. On Wednesday night, Donald Trump signed legislation that re-opens the government after a 43-day lapse, the longest...

Cynthia A. Baldwin: Is this your America?

A country where masked, armed troops roam the streets of our cities arresting and deporting people without due process. A country where the president...

To Be Equal: Tell Congress to support families on SNAP

by Marc H. Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“The loss of SNAP benefits leads to food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition … Low-income children who go without nutritious food will...

Halfway to chains: What’s already been enforced under Project 2025

Republican Project 2025 Photo by Douglas Rissing / NNPA They said it would never happen here. Yet here we are. Forty-eight percent of Project 2025,...

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation

ICE’s surveillance gaze is likely to sweep across millions of people’s social media posts. Westend61/Westend61 via Getty Images by Nicole M. Bennett, Indiana University When most...

Mary Sheffield Becomes the Youngest Black Woman Ever Elected to Lead a Major U.S. City

Mary Sheffield is Detroit’s new mayor-elect. For the first time in 12 years, Detroiters elected a mayor other than Mike Duggan, who announced earlier this...

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