New York Prison System Struggles With Strike Amid Outrage Over High-Profile...
By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — New York state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is struggling to keep striking officers on the job, as it grapples with the fallout from two...
View ArticlePolitical Playback: California Capitol News You Might Have Missed
By Bo Tefu, California Black Media A Strategic Alliance: Reparations Advocates, Republican Assemblymember Explain Proposed Freedmen Affairs Agency In an unexpected alliance, Kamilah Moore, who served...
View ArticleCalifornia Surgeon General’s Office Launches New Tool to Lower Maternal...
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media The California Surgeon General’s Office has launched a new questionnaire that they believe will help reduce the state’s maternal mortality rate by 50% by...
View ArticleTrump Moves to Dismantle Education Department
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA, Senior National Correspondent The Trump administration is preparing to issue an executive order directing newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin...
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California vs Trump: Attorney Gen. Bonta Lays Out “Resistance” Plan
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media During an online conference on Feb. 26, California Attorney General Rob Bonta detailed how the Trump Administration had used its first five and...
View ArticleStopgap Bill Advances as Congress Moves to Prevent Shutdown
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent A newly introduced stopgap bill in Congress aims to extend government funding through the end of the 2025 fiscal year, providing...
View ArticleBipartisan Effort Seeks to Protect Workers and Crack Down on Child Labor...
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have introduced a bipartisan bill to accelerate contract negotiations for...
View ArticleMarket Turmoil Raises Concerns Among Black Investors
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com, Senior National Correspondent The U.S. stock markets have continued to experience significant declines, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping to start the...
View Article‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th Anniversary Marked in Selma With Remembrances and...
By KIM CHANDLER and SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in...
View ArticleWashington, DC, To Remove ‘Black Lives Matter’ Painting from Street Near...
By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House as Washington...
View ArticleA 40-Day Target Boycott Began This Week. What to Know About the Protest and...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A 40-day boycott of Target that calls for supporters to give up shopping at the company’s stores during the Lenten period kicked off this...
View ArticleD’Wayne Wiggins, Founding Member of The R&B Group Tony! Toni! Tone!, Has Died...
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member of the Grammy-nominated group Tony! Toni! Tone! behind the classic 1990s jams “Anniversary,” “It...
View ArticleAsm. Rhodesia Ransom’s AB 13 Aims to Lower California’s High Electricity Costs
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom (D-Stockton) says she understood before she was elected to office last year that Californians pay among the highest...
View ArticleMillions of Americans Juggling Side Hustles to Make Ends Meet
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent A new 2025 Side Hustle Survey from LendingTree shows that nearly half of Americans, 44 percent, have a side hustle, with many...
View ArticleDebt Relief Just Got Real: Experian Erases Millions in Balances For African...
By Stacy Brown, BlackPressUSA.com, Senior National Correspondent Experian has launched a major debt relief initiative, committing $5 million to assist 5,000 families in Louisiana and aiming to expand...
View ArticleDoechii Named 2025 Woman Of The Year By Billboard
By MARIA SHERMAN, AP Music Writer The rising rapper Doechii has earned the title of Billboard’s 2025 Woman of the Year, landing her in the same company as Taylor Swift, SZA, Lady Gaga and as last...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: It’s Me: A Case For DEI
Many people tend to believe that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are just government affirmative action laws that are set aside only for Black Americans. They tend to focus on the belief that...
View ArticleGarlin Gilchrist Announces Democratic Bid to Become Michigan’s First Black...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Garlin Gilchrist II, a Democrat from Detroit who is Michigan’s first Black lieutenant governor, announced he’s jumping into the crowded 2026...
View ArticleAs the White Population Shrinks, The Politics of DEI Resentment Will Crumble
By Roger House, Professor Emeritus, Emerson College President Trump has stoked the fears of white working-class supporters through a politics of resentment over their declining fortunes in a...
View ArticleBlack Women Are Being Excluded Yet Again
By Tihut Tamrat, Voice & Viewpoint Staff A 2023 report done by The California Black Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute (CABWCEI), focused on how Black Women experience California –...
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