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BLACKPRESS NEWSWIRE – Former President Barack Obama has stepped back into the political arena, delivering some of his sharpest critiques yet of President Donald Trump as the Democratic Party struggle through one of its weakest moments in modern history.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — October is Head Start Awareness Month. There is no singular look to Head Start — its federal-to-local structure has served communities and families well over the past six decades

       The ancestors are speaking, and this time, they are not whispering. They are roaring through the corridors of power, rattling the bones of empires, and calling the world to account. On September 25, 2025, at the United Nations General Assembly, the earth itself seemed to pause as African leaders stood together, not as beggars, not as former colonies, but as the original stewards of civilization, demanding justice. Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, declared that the Transatlantic Slave Trade was “the greatest crime against humanity,” and announced a formal motion for reparative justice on behalf of Africans and their descendants around the world. He said it plainly and powerfully: “Reparatory justice is not about pity. It is about recognition, responsibility, and restitution.” And in that moment, you could almost hear the applause of the ancestors, the ones who were stolen, silenced, and buried in unmarked graves, rising to bear witness. Because this was not just a speech it was a summoning.

       Local outlet Caribbean National Weekly reported that her relatives found her unresponsive in her apartment on September 23. Police are treating the case as a suspected suicide.

      The World Food Programme (WFP) warned Thursday that escalating gang violence in Haiti’s capital is crippling humanitarian access, worsening hunger, and forcing the agency to slash food rations and suspend life-saving programmes amid a severe funding crisis.

Trump drew attention at Quantico Marine Corps Base when he told top military leaders there are “two N-words” that cannot be used. He also joked about firing generals, praised U.S. nuclear power, and boasted about peace efforts abroad.

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Conrad Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., pulsed with history and urgency as the Black Press of America gathered for its Annual National Leadership Awards and Reception.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The nation is bracing for a government shutdown unlike any in its history. At the center stands President Donald Trump, who has declared that if Congress cannot keep the government open, federal workers may not just be furloughed — they may be permanently fired.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Its origin was poisoned by the retreat from Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, but its meaning grew larger. It became a vow that liberty cannot live where rifles enforce the law of civilians.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus were split on the question of whether Charlie Kirk, a rightwing commentator with controversial views on race, should be honored by a lengthy Republican-penned resolution in his honor.