In a significant moment for the labor movement, Roxanne Brown, set to become the first African American woman elected as President of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union, joins Make It Plain with Rev. Mark Thompson. With the official transition happening in March, Brown’s ascent is more than just a personal achievement; it represents a shift in the labor movement’s leadership reflecting the demographics of today’s workforce.
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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Comcast said Wednesday it is expanding eligibility for its Internet Essentials program to households earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level, making a family of four with an annual income of $64,300 or less eligible for the service.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a ruling signed by a federal court and signed by a Judge nominated by President Donald Trump, new congressional maps created by the Texas GOP have been blocked.
So it’s hardly surprising when Trump degrades female reporters. But the president reached a new low even for him when he referred to Bloomberg News White House correspondent reporter Catherine Lucey as “Piggy” last week aboard Air Force One.
Viola Ford Fletcher — known to the world as Mother Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and one of the most powerful living witnesses to America’s suppressed history. Born in 1914, she was only seven years old when mobs burned the prosperous Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, destroying her family’s home, livelihood, and sense of safety in a single night. For nearly a century she carried those memories quietly, but with unshakable clarity the screams, the smoke, the terror in the streets, the planes overhead. When she finally testified before Congress at age 107, her words cut through the nation’s conscience and reignited a global demand for justice and reparations.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A busy news week heading into the Thanksgiving holiday has distracted from a continuing effort by the Trump Administration to relocate, and in some cases end, the U.S. Department of Education.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — There are moments in a family’s life when truth becomes a battlefield, when people confuse the echo of old wounds for revelation, and when the soft stir of resentment becomes a storm.
Jayden Williams, a 22-year-old HBCU graduate of Clark Atlanta University, recently made history as Stockbridge, Georgia’s youngest mayor after defeating two-term incumbent Anthony Ford with 53 percent of the vote.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Her most recent gifts to historically Black colleges and universities surpass $400 million this year alone. These are not gestures. They are declarations. They say that the education of Black students is not optional, not expendable and not dependent on the approval of those who fear what an educated Black citizenry represents.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — They had the audacity, the gall, the hypocrisy to condemn Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, while opening the White House to a man their own government once called a terrorist.