On September 4, 1957, a 15-year-old Black girl in a neatly pressed dress walked alone toward Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her name was Dorothy Counts, and with every step she took, history was being made. She was one of the first four Black students to integrate the city’s public schools—yet the price she paid was steep.
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Nearly 200 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees are warning that President Donald Trump’s policies could leave the nation vulnerable to a disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a surprising announcement, Howard University President Ben Vinson III, 55, will leave his position as Howard University’s 18th President.
On Aug. 28, in solemn commemoration of the historic 1963 March on Washington, a united coalition of churches and the Black Press led by Dr. Boise Kimber, Bishop J. Drew Sheard, Dr. Samuel C. Tolbert, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr, president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA): The Black Press of America will join Civil Rights icon Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, to lead a protest march on Wall Street in New York City, the epicenter of economic power and privilege. The march will feature prominent religious and Civil Rights leaders and activists, who will speak and much more.
What should be a historic moment for Florida Memorial University — the appointment of its first-ever alumnus as president — may be spiraling into a bitter power struggle and looming legal battle.
The Florida Memorial University (FMU) Board of Trustees proudly announces the appointment of William C. McCormick, Jr., MBA (Class of 1987), as the 15th President of the institution. This historic appointment marks the first time in FMU’s 146-year history that an alumnus will lead the University.
In its nonstop assault on the most vulnerable Americans, the Trump administration is preparing to impose sweeping cuts to Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a program that provides a lifeline for the nation’s poorest seniors, children, and severely disabled adults. The proposed rule would strip eligibility from hundreds of thousands and slash monthly payments by as much as one-third, even as new data confirms Social Security’s trust funds are facing insolvency within the next decade.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Late on August 14, day four of a military and federal law enforcement occupation of Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered that the Police Chief of Washington, D.C., Chief Pamela Smith, be replaced in the chain of command by Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
April Ryan is joined by Texas House Representative Venton Jones to discuss why he left Texas in protest of the redistricting map, the threats received by Texas Democrats and their families, and how Republicans across the country seem beyond conversation or compromise.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE – President Trump’s takeover of D.C.’s police force and National Guard deployment ignores record crime drops and targets majority-Black cities with fear-driven rhetoric. From Baltimore to Chicago, data shows major declines in violent crime—yet Trump pushes a false chaos narrative to justify federal control and undermine Black leadership.