Emergency Housing Voucher Program Faces Collapse, Threatening Tens of...
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentA federal housing program credited with stabilizing the lives of tens of thousands of Americans fleeing homelessness, domestic...
View ArticleThe Department of Education is Collecting Delinquent Student Loan Debt
By April Ryan, BlackPressUSA White House CorrespondentTrump Targets Wages for Forgiven Student DebtThe Department of Education, which the Trump administration is working to abolish, will now serve as...
View ArticleCancer Death Rates Declining, New Report Says, but Diagnosis Rates Are on the...
By Katherine Dillinger, CNN(CNN) — A new report on cancer in the US shows a steady decline in overall deaths from 2001 through 2022. The rate of diagnoses among men fell from 2001 through 2013 and then...
View ArticleBlack Think Tank Challenges Big Tech’s Legal Armor
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentA new report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies urges lawmakers to put Black voices at the forefront of efforts...
View ArticleCancer Death Rates Declining, New Report Says, but Diagnosis Rates Are On the...
By Katherine Dillinger, CNN(CNN) — A new report on cancer in the US shows a steady decline in overall deaths from 2001 through 2022. The rate of diagnoses among men fell from 2001 through 2013 and then...
View ArticleBlack Health Jeopardized as FDA Scraps Milk Oversight
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentThe Food and Drug Administration has suspended a key quality-control program for testing milk and other dairy products, citing a...
View ArticleJails Packed with Minor Offenders, New National Data Shows
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentNewly released data from the Jail Data Initiative have provided the first national look in more than 20 years at the offenses driving...
View ArticleDefending Migrants Was A Priority for Pope Francis From the Earliest Days of...
By Giovanna Dell’orto and Renata Brito, Associated PressAdvocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis’ top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, skyrocketing numbers of...
View ArticleAI Is Reshaping Black Healthcare: Promise, Peril, and the Push for Improved...
By Joe W. Bowers Jr., California Black MediaArtificial intelligence (AI) is changing how Californians receive medical care – diagnosing diseases, predicting patient needs, streamlining treatments, and...
View ArticleEssay: Technology and Medicine, a Primary Care Point of View
By Dr. Adia Scrubb, Special to California Black Media PartnersTechnology has enhanced communication between medical professionals and patients; improved patient care management; and eased access to...
View ArticleState of the People POWER Tour Launches a 10-State Effort to Build a National...
By Lauren Burke, NNPA Newswire Organizers of the inaugural “State of the People POWER Tour” will launch events around the U.S. starting this Saturday. The tour seeks to amplify Black voices across the...
View ArticleMayor Scott Condemns Trump Administration’s Cuts to Public Safety Funding
By Lauren Burke, NNPA Newswire Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott is urging the Trump administration to reverse sweeping cuts to public safety programs, warning that the decision could derail recent...
View ArticleYoung Americans Losing Faith in the System
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentA new national survey from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School finds young Americans facing financial uncertainty,...
View ArticleHistoric Black Sites Under Threat, May 3 Mobilization Set
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentReverend Shavon Arline-Bradley, president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), is mobilizing a national response to...
View ArticleFour Black Caucus’ “Road to Repair” Bills Aim to Reduce Biases; Determine...
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media“Senate Bill (SB) 437 utilizes the California State University to explore options to determine how to confirm if an individual is a descendant of a person who...
View ArticleDemocrats Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker Lead Daylong Capitol Sit-In at U.S....
By Stacy M. Brown, BlackPressUSA.com Senior National CorrespondentHouse Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker concluded a 12-hour sit-in Sunday evening on the steps of the U.S....
View ArticleCommunity Fair Brings Hope to Southeastern San Diego
By Charles Warren, The Freelancer, V&V Contributing Writer On Saturday, April 19th, the Martin Luther King Recreation Center in Southeastern San Diego was alive with energy, purpose, and community...
View ArticleBoston Celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally Led by MLK as Advocates Urge Continued...
By Michael Casey, Associated PressBOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out...
View ArticleBlack Biz Flea Market Brings Culture and Commerce to Balboa Park
By Charles Warren, The Freelancer, V&V Contributing Writer On Sunday, April 27, hundreds of community members gathered at the World Beat Cultural Center in Balboa Park to support and celebrate...
View ArticleSkyline Hills, Social Clubs Unite for Easter Egg Hunt Celebration
By Charles Warren, The Freelancer, V&V Contributing WriterOn Saturday, April 19th, 2025, the Skyline Hills Recreation Center transformed into a joyful springtime celebration as the Skyline Hills...
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