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Details: Written by PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press; Published: 29 September 2025

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Shakur’s case had long been a thorny issue in the fraught relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

Details: Written by Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent; Published: 18 September 2025

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The Trump administration has intensified its campaign to rewrite how America tells its history, ordering federal agencies to remove exhibits and materials that emphasize slavery and racial injustice setting a deadline of September 17.

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Details: Written by Lauren Burke, NNPA; Published: 16 September 2025

Karen Attiah, Global Opinions Editor, the Washington Post; Alexis Okeowo, Staff writer, The New Yorker; New America National Fellow, Class of 2016 & 2017; Author, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa; 2012 IRP Fellow, reporting from Nigeria (Wikimedia Commons / Photo by New America)

According to Attiah, she was the last full-time Black opinion columnist at The Post, where she was employed for 11 years.

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Details: Written by ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business Writer; Published: 15 September 2025

FILE - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, left, talks with Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, right, during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Cook, the first Black woman to serve as a Fed governor, has been accused of mortgage fraud, which she denies. A federal judge ruled her removal illegal, but the administration appealed. This marks the first time a president has tried to fire a Fed governor.

Details: Written by Cal J. Halvorsen, Associate Professor of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis; Ernest Gonzales, Associate Professor of Social Work, New York University; Nancy Morrow-Howell, Distinguished Professor of Social Policy, Washington University in St.; Published: 11 September 2025

The program helps Americans over 55 find job training and short-term employment. (Marc Romanelli/Tetra images via Getty Images)

The program helps Americans over 55 find job training and short-term employment. Effects of its defunding are already being felt in Oregon.

Details: Written by Stacy M. Brown, Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent; Published: 10 September 2025

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A billboard in Montgomery, Alabama, has ignited a storm of backlash after displaying the words “It’s Time to Get the Clowns Out!” alongside images of people in racist blackface, all framed in the branding of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

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Details: Written by Lauren Burke, NNPA; Published: 10 September 2025

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The Missouri House on Tuesday approved a congressional map designed to weaken one of the state’s two Democratic incumbents, intensifying the partisan redistricting battles that are shaping the political landscape ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Details: Written by Stacy M. Brown,  Black Press USA, Senior National Correspondent; Published: 10 September 2025

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America is no longer drifting toward authoritarianism. It is living it. Project 2025 has been instituted, and the results are clear.

Details: Written by ED WHITE and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER; Published: 29 August 2025

Homicides through the first six months of 2025 were down significantly in Portland, Chicago, New York City, Seattle, Baltimore, and San Francisco. Aggravated assaults were also down, with the exception of New York, where they were virtually unchanged.