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      In late August of 2005, recent college graduate Yasmin Gabriel never thought that her world would be turned upside down. August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit and destroyed the city of New Orleans leaving the people to fend for themselves. After coming home and seeing the damage, she didn’t shut down. She pivoted and dedicated her time to documenting the struggle of college students who survived, so that no one’s story was lost. She had a calling, a check, and a camera, to document “Picking Up The Pieces”.  

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE —Bill Cosby said his widely criticized admonition that young Black men should “pull their pants up” was less about fashion and more about a system that profits from negative images of African Americans.

– Five firefighters from DC, who are all African American women, took a casual photo at their station that unexpectedly went viral. Now, the crew hopes the attention encourages young girls to see firefighting as a career they can pursue.

President Donald Trump has moved to end immigration programs that allowed Haitians to live and work legally in the United States. The policy shift could affect up to 500,000 Haitians, many of whom are already losing jobs and facing deportation.

    American tennis player Taylor Townsend is on her way to the third round of the U.S. Open after defeating top-25-ranked Jelena Ostapenko in an upset victory on Wednesday night. However, a heated exchange between the players after the match ended has gone viral, with some claiming the Latvian player’s angry comments were not only those of a sore loser but also potentially racist.

       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.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In 2021, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. Today, leadership in America is trying to erase this history. This is Part 6 in the series.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The day marked a homecoming and a chance to reflect on the program’s long-running impact on the community.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Sixty-two years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, thousands poured into Lower Manhattan on Thursday, linking arms and voices in what was billed as the largest demonstration of its kind since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris talks about the importance of this year’s November general election during the National Urban League convention in northwest D.C. on July 22. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)