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08/08/2025

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones is staying put until Republican lawmakers stop openly stealing Black and Brown votes.
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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones said she isn’t budging—not until Republican lawmakers end what she calls a blatant effort to strip voting power from Black and Brown communities.

08/08/2025

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — From purging diversity programs to steamrolling media independence, Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of white nationalist policymaking under the guise of federal power.

08/08/2025

Fred Redmond, the highest-ranking Black leader in U.S. labor history, warns Trump’s second term is a “full-scale assault” on Black workers.

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Newswire Senior National Correspondent   Fred Redmond, the highest-ranking African American in the history of the American labor movement, is sounding the alarm on what he calls a full-scale assault on Black workers under President Donald Trump’s second term. “...

08/08/2025

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE- Trump promised to protect “Black jobs,” but the July jobs report tells another story—his policies have brought only uncertainty and insecurity for working people.

by Fred Redmond, AFL-CIO Secretary – Treasurer President Trump likes to say he is delivering for working people. He promised on the campaign trail that he would protect “Black jobs.” But like so many of his promises, it is an empty one. In fact, we have been living with the effects of Trump’...

08/07/2025

𝗕𝗼𝗺𝗯 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀. 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝗮𝘀.
Rep. Jolanda Jones joins the Black Press to explain why Texas Democrats fled the state to stop a redistricting plan that could hand five new seats to Republicans.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 8𝗮𝗺 𝗘𝗦𝗧 / 5𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗦𝗧 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗕𝗘. 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗨𝗦𝗔

08/07/2025

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — While headlines from CBS News and other outlets claim that crime dropped “in every category” in 2024, a closer examination of the FBI’s newly released data shows that such summaries exclude key categories of criminal activity that remain serious or are getting worse.

08/07/2025

Award-winning documentary 'Even Me' returns with a powerful sequel, revisiting the lives of older African American women living with HIV.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A decade after its acclaimed debut, the award-winning documentary Even Me returns with a powerful sequel, Even Me 2.0: Unfinished Business. Debuting on Prime, the new film revisits the lives of older African American women living with HIV, an often-overlooked group at the ...

08/07/2025

The NFL's NFC East to field four Black starting QBs this season, including Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels, Dak Prescott, and Russell Wilson.

The National Football League’s NFC Eastern Division will be the first division that fields four Black or African-American starting quarterbacks this season. The anticipated starting quarterbacks are Jayden Daniels, Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott, and Russell Wilson, respectively, for the Washington Com...

03/20/2025

Onyx Impact Launches Digital Green Book to Fight Misinformation and Empower Black Communities BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE – Bots make up 42% of social media traffic and manipulate conversations and algorithms. This inspired the creation of the Digital Green Book for Culture. The guardrails are gone. Black users face disinformation 2.7 times more than the general population.

03/06/2025

https://blackpressusa.com/trump-moves-to-dismantle-education-department/
The Trump administration is preparing to issue an executive order directing newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the Department of Education. While the president lacks the authority to unilaterally shut down the agency—requiring congressional approval—McMahon has been tasked with taking “all necessary steps” to reduce its role “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” The administration justifies the move by claiming the department has spent over $1 trillion since its 1979 founding without improving student achievement

03/05/2025

BLACKPRESSUSA Newswire - As Trump prepared to address a joint session of Congress, most CBC members had vowed they would attend—not to validate him, but to “look him in the eye” as he and Musk continue to ravage the country.

Stacy M. Brown,
Senior National Correspondent

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03/05/2025

BLACKPRESSUSA Newswire—Last night, Speaker Johnson asked Congressman Green to sit down while calling for decorum.
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April D. Ryan, Washington Bureau Chief