For the more than 10 million Black Americans who rely on federal food assistance to feed their families, the projected damage from food-aid cuts was not just a warning. They were all but a done deal.
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For many Americans, emancipation is remembered as a single moment January 1, 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But for Black Floridians, freedom did not arrive with the stroke of a pen. It came slowly, painfully, and only after generations of struggle, sacrifice, and survival.
Such is the story of Emma Mike and Lillie Mike, two little Black girls whose lives were stolen in Calhoun County, Georgia, in 1884 during one of America’s many acts of racial terror. One child was reportedly only six years old. The other was just four.
On April 25, 2026, friends and family gathered in celebration of the 60th wedding anniversary of Floyd and Jewell Johnson who were joined in matrimony, April 18, 1966. The Johnsons were high school sweethearts in Richmond, Virginia and made their way to Florida after Mr. Johnson’s military service and education in California.
The Morehouse School of Medicine administration is facing pushback from students over the institution’s decision to select U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, a Georgia Republican, to deliver the graduation address.
What was expected to be a routine political gathering Monday night quickly transformed into a passionate and emotionally charged public reckoning over the future of Florida’s Congressional District 20 a historically Black congressional seat now standing at the center of a statewide political storm.
Florida’s largest teachers union is suing the Florida Department of Education (FDOE), accusing officials within Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration of failing to uphold their constitutional duty to give students a consistent, high-quality public education.
Recently Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Ranking Member Robert Garcia, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and members of the House Oversight Committee, alongside local leaders and immigration advocates, hosted a press conference in Orlando to announce the launch of new investigations and introduced the No Illegal Captivity and Extensions (NICE) Act, aimed at ending U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement’s (ICE) practice of holding detained immigrants indefinitely without charges.
For more than three decades, FL-20 has stood as a pillar of Black representation. It has been a district where Black voters weren’t just participants, they were the driving force. As the Caucus rightly pointed out, Black voters have long been the backbone and the soul of the Democratic Party. And with that comes a responsibility to protect what has been built.
Florida GOP undermines Black voters, leveraging power politics at a high price