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Trump Klan Puts Forward a Credit Rule That Could Take America Back Decades – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. A New Credit Rule That Could Take America Back Decades On a cold Friday morning, with coffee still warm and the country already tired, Alphonso David spoke without ornament, naming a danger that has followed this country for generations and never truly left. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, David told the Black Press of America’s Let It Be Known, is […]

todayDecember 12, 2025

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With Seats of Congressional Black Caucus Members Under Attack, Trump Again Targets Rep. Ilhan Omar – BlackPressUSA

By Lauren Burke On December 4, during a White House cabinet meeting, President Trump launched into a hateful, racist rant against Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Those Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her – she’s always talking about ‘the constitution provides me with uhhhh,’” Trump ranted, speaking of Congresswoman Omar. Trump has targeted Rep. Omar and other members of Congress’s “Squad” before […]

todayDecember 12, 2025

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Rural America Faces the First Cut as ACA Support Hits a High – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Out across the long stretches of the country—where the roads narrow, the hospitals disappear, and the winters sit heavy—health insurance is not an abstraction. It is a quiet bargain that keeps families from slipping into ruin. That bargain is now on the edge of collapse. Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, and rural Americans stand to suffer most. These subsidies, introduced during […]

todayDecember 11, 2025 1

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Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Scores $779 Million Verdict for Black Family – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent In an America shaped once again by racial hostility and the rollback of diversity protections under the Trump administration, renowned Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump continues to force institutions to confront the value of Black life. His latest victory, a $779.3 million wrongful death verdict for the killing of security guard Lewis Butler, lands as a direct challenge to a system that has long accepted negligence toward Black workers as an […]

todayDecember 11, 2025 1

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Trump’s Police Buildout Raises National Alarm – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Across the country, Americans are watching Washington not as the symbolic capital of a democracy but as a stage where power is being rearranged in real time. The resignation of D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith, the deployment of National Guard units and federal troops into the city, and the quiet but relentless expansion of the U.S. Park Police form a single portrait. It is the portrait of a federal government reshaping […]

todayDecember 10, 2025

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Announces Run for Senate, Rev. Frederick Haynes, III Files to Run for Her Old Seat – BlackPressUSA

By Lauren Burke “We need to stop all the hell that is reigning down on all of our people,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett from a Dallas stage to a cheering standing-room-only crowd. On December 8, Rep. Crockett, who has built a reputation as a firebrand in Congress in the fight against Trump’s MAGA Republicanism, announced she would run for the U.S. Senate in 2026. Rep. Crockett will be competing to take on veteran Republican Senator John Cornyn, but there is […]

todayDecember 9, 2025

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Inside Trump’s ICE Machine – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent The case of Rodney Taylor, a disabled Black immigrant detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is forcing Congress to confront new evidence of medical neglect, unchecked raids, and a hiring system that has shifted under President Donald Trump’s order to build the largest deportation force in modern history. Taylor’s family was scheduled to speak outside the Capitol on Dec. 4, following a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Immigration Integrity, Security, […]

todayDecember 5, 2025

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Congressional Black Caucus Comes Out Hard Against NCAA-Friendly Bill on College Athlete NIL Money – BlackPressUSA

By Lauren Burke “It is a shame that organizations like the NCAA, who last year touted $1.4 billion in revenue — a $91 million increase from the prior year — have for so long been able to benefit from college athletes’ hard work and sacrifice while the athletes themselves are often exploited and mistreated,” a blunt Dec. 3 statement by the Congressional Black Caucus, in part, asserted.  After days of animated back-and-forth on legislation that would hand even more power […]

todayDecember 5, 2025 1

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Child Deaths Rise as Global Health Collapses Under Funding Cuts – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent The signs were visible to anyone willing to look. Clinics running out of medicine, health workers sent home in silence, and governments bracing for a wave they could no longer afford to stop. Now the evidence is written in hard numbers. For the first time this century, the number of children dying before their 5th birthday is rising. The Gates Foundation’s 2025 Goalkeepers Report states that 4.6 million children died before […]

todayDecember 4, 2025