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   For over 198 years the Black Press and the Black Church have joined together for causes of freedom, justice, equality, equity, and empowerment.   Today more than ever before there is renewed urgency for the Black Church and the Black Press to publicly amplify our mutual interests to protect and maintain the hard-fought gains and progress that has been accomplished by African Americans in the last two centuries.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — separating at least 1300 workers from their jobs, will also likely reduce the amount of educational data that is available

       I started wandering through my childhood and adolescence, trying to figure out how I wound up creating the guy now sitting in front of his computer screen, and I quickly started digging through some of the old journal notebooks I have saved, dating back to tenth grade. In my English class that year, one of the books we were assigned to read was The Diary of Anne Frank. To say it had an impact on me is putting it mildly.            

     In the Trump era, economic policy often comes with more bluster than strategy. His latest round of tariffs is no exception. Slapped on a broad swath of imported goods without rhyme, reason, or regard for the people who will bear the brunt of the cost – American families and workers – these tariffs are a political stunt masquerading as industrial policy.

   In the 2024 fiscal year, Black Americans collectively held $5.39 trillion in wealth, despite comprising only 13.7% of the U.S. population. If Black Americans were a nation, they would rank as the third wealthiest country in the world, behind only China.

    Keep it up, patriots!  We’re winning.  The criminal Tesla Corporation is going down in flames, just like traitor Trump’s failed fascist regime is burning to the ground (according to public opinion polls) while obese Orange Nero fiddles around with his sexually abused daughter Ivanka once again.  Who needs Melania after all?  Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and Elon Musk loves Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany almost as much as Donald Trump does.  Lock them both up!

   His realization sent shivers down my spine. Growing up in Germany, I read Friedrich by Hans-Peter Richter, a novel about two boys in Hitler’s Germany—one Jewish, the other not. Their innocent childhood is shattered as persecution tightens.