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His legs are unsteady — he walks haltingly, supporting himself on canes — and he often wears a mask to protect his immune system. But Bishop William J. Barber II, the Yale University theolo-gian, pastor, and civil rights warrior, is gearing up for another fight.
On Sunday (October 27), Bryant announced that he was suspending monetary offerings through November at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia, instead urging congregants to make food donations to support families who will soon lose their SNAP benefits.
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Lake County Sheriff s Office on Monday night, Oct. 20 in Painesville, Ohio to protest the county working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain and house immigrants who have been apprehended.
A Black Lives Matter mural in Houston, Texas dedicated to George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man killed by Minneapolis police, could soon be removed under a new state order, per Houston Public Media.
Antonio Sweeney relied on a mix of private and school scholarships, plus a federal Pell Grant for low income students, to pay for his first two years at his dream school, Morehouse College, in Atlanta, the alma mater of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) and Martin Luther King Jr. But by junior year, most of the outside scholarship money was used up and he had taken on so many activities–from serving as class president to running his own side businesses–that he hadn’t earned enough credits to keep his Morehouse academic scholarship. He filled the gap that year by taking out federal and private student loans. Now, in his senior year, his mother has come to the rescue–she borrowed $24,419 this fall from the federal Parent Plus program and plans to tap a similar amount for the spring semester. “We’re almost at the finish line and if this is what needed to be done for him to complete his education, then as a parent, I’m willing to do it,’’ says Sylvia Tripplett, a Flint, Michigan special education teacher still paying off her own student loans.
Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the VRA in Louisiana v. Callais. It was Nelson’s first case before the Supreme Court, marking a historic day for the UCLA School of Law-educated lawyer.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their experiences in the first 1,000 days of life.
The ongoing federal government shutdown, now surpassing a week, is exacting a heavy human and economic toll that reaches far beyond the political squabbling in Washington. As Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a stalemate—debating everything from health insurance subsidies to immigration policies—the immediate victims are the nation’s civil servants and, crucially, our uniformed military personnel and their families. Furthermore, the crisis is generating significant hidden costs that erode taxpayer money and damage government efficiency.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Only 37% of Americans approve of President Trump. Those numbers are from a new October 2025 AP-NORC Center Poll