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.
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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.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Tashia Lemon-Guillory recently shared her Head Start success story with the National Head Start Association.
Sisters Network® Inc., the nation’s pioneer and leading Black-led national breast cancer survivorship organization, is bringing the 2025 National Black Breast Cancer Summit back to Houston, Texas, October 3–5, 2025.
The U.S. Department of State has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas, a move raising alarm among immigrant and student communities already grappling with heightened scrutiny and shrinking opportunities for higher education in the United States.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Transatlantic Slave Trade is not just Black history—it is American history, and Black Americans lived it.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The book is an unapologetic examination of how the horrors of the past—rooted in slavery—continue to manifest in present-day America through police brutality, mass incarceration, economic disparities, and educational inequality.
Multiple pieces on Tech Policy Press have already unpacked aspects of this moment: the real harms of framing AI as “anti-woke”, how the administration’s “innovation” push is in reality a broad deregulation effort, and how the very attempt to ban “woke AI” exposes the deeply ideological nature of these policies. Building on these conversations, I want to focus on a dimension that often gets overlooked: how this shift in federal AI priorities lands on Black communities, who have been and will continue to be the first to feel the weight of these choices.
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.