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Both Parties Lose Public Confidence as Americans Grow Angry and Disillusioned – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent With the 2026 midterm elections still a year away, Americans are growing increasingly weary of both major political parties. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party is widely viewed as governing ethically or honestly. The survey of 3,445 adults, conducted from September 22 to 28, just before the monthlong government shutdown, found that only 39 percent of Americans describe the Republican Party as […]

October 31, 2025

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Millions Suffer as Trump’s Economy Crumbles – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent America’s economy is not collapsing by accident. Under President Donald Trump, Russell Vought, and Stephen Miller, a deliberate plan has taken hold, a plan that weakens the labor market, starves families of food and health care, and rewards the wealthy with power and profit. What was once called “economic populism” has become an organized campaign of cruelty that has left the country broken and millions of Americans in despair. The labor […]

October 30, 2025

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25 States Suing Trump USDA for Gutting Food Aid to 40 million Americans – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Twenty-five attorneys general across the country and three governors have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Secretary, Brooke Rollins, after the agency moved to suspend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP, which helps more than 40 million Americans buy food each month. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, argues that Rollins and the USDA unlawfully halted the program despite having billions […]

October 30, 2025

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Inside the Mind of Russell Vought: Trump’s Enforcer – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownSenior National Correspondent, Black Press of America Russell Vought wakes each morning with the cold precision of a man who has learned to confuse faith with power. His pen is a weapon, and his calculations are not about progress or prosperity. They are about punishment. He has taken the language of government and turned it into a vocabulary of cruelty. Each budget cut is an act of vengeance. Each withheld dollar is a message to the poor, […]

October 29, 2025

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Museum Advocates vs. the Smithsonian Board of Regents – BlackPressUSA

By April Ryan Today is an all-day board meeting for the Smithsonian Regents. Advocates and lawyers are advocating for this quarterly meeting to save over a million artifacts and specimens, particularly at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A group forming a broad-based coalition called America’s History SOS is presenting over 70,000 signatures to members of Congress who serve on the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to save artifacts at what is affectionately called the Blacksonian (NMAAHC), which […]

October 29, 2025

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America’s Most Vulnerable Face a Crisis of Cruelty – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent There are moments when a nation shows its soul. This is one of them. Across America, millions are waiting for food assistance that will not come. The Trump administration’s refusal to release federal contingency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — known as SNAP — has triggered what many are calling a man-made famine. For the first time in history, the federal government has deliberately stopped food aid during a […]

October 28, 2025

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White America Faces Reality of Trump’s Cruel Shutdown as SNAP Benefits Vanish – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent America is being strangled by its own government. Forty million people who depend on food stamps to survive are about to lose them because Donald Trump decided that his personal power trip was more important than keeping the government open. The shutdown has cut deep, and this week, those cuts reach the dinner tables of the working poor. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, has always been a mirror […]

October 28, 2025

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Hakeem Jeffries Finds His Fire Again on ‘Face the Nation’ – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” this week signaled a noticeable change in tone and approach. It was the kind of performance that reminded Democrats why they had chosen him to lead after Nancy Pelosi. Jeffries, who recently received the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s 2025 National Leadership Award, spoke with a sharpness and conviction that many observers said they had been missing in recent months. He […]

October 27, 2025

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Trumps Approval is Underwater – BlackPressUSA

By April Ryan Only 37% of Americans approve of President Trump. Those numbers are from a new October 2025 AP-NORC Center Poll, Meanwhile, over 7,000,000 people are estimated to have marched across the country on Saturday against President Donald Trump in No Kings Day 2.0, which aligns with the Associated Press poll’s findings.Protesters included former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and scores of others protesting the fate of democracy and the human condition under the Trump administration’s second term. The White […]

October 26, 2025