Author: Carma Henry

        As the transfer portal has put all of NCAA athletics in a game of musical chairs, one HBCU football coach suggests a compensation method to make everyone happy.

     Texas has launched the state’s first-ever HBCU Legislative Caucus, a bipartisan coalition dedicated to strengthening and advancing the nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the Lone Star State. Led by Representative Ron Reynolds, this historic initiative emerges as HBCUs face unprecedented attacks on diversity initiatives, public education, and academic freedom.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Carey Pershadsingh, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5.

       President Carter’s words, upon signing the bill to create the U.S. Department of Education in 1979, ring louder today than ever before.

   The metaphor, ‘Pain reveals Reality,’ suggests that suffering acts as a catalyst, bringing to light hidden truths about us, our nation, and the world. It can also help us discern what is important and what is not. This often leads to a deeper understanding of ourselves, others, and the situations we find ourselves in. Pain compels people, including voters, to introspect and identify the causes of their suffering and pain.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — While Target remains silent on its declining traffic, the contrast with its competitors is glaring. Costco, which maintained its DEI commitments despite political attacks, saw a 5.2% year-over-year increase in foot traffic during the same week.

       The day started with a large group of mostly white demonstrators holding hands and encircling the National Museum of African American History and Culture with “Hands Off!” signs and other anti-Trump banners and slogans.

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office ordered the school to get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Brain, Brand, and Beauty HBCU Collegiate Conference, presented by The Skky Brand, Inc. and Alabama State University (ASU), brought together influential experts to empower and inspire female students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This dynamic, one-day event, held on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama, was the inaugural stop of a nationwide tour that will visit HBCU campuses across the United States.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Obama, meanwhile, broke his silence during an appearance at Hamilton College in New York, offering one of his sharpest public critiques yet of Trump’s second administration.