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Black America’s Cultural Giants Lost in 2025 – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The losses came steadily in 2025, not as a single rupture but as a quiet procession. Voices that once filled sanctuaries, arenas, studios, television screens, and living rooms went still. The year closed with Black America taking inventory not only of who died, but of what each life carried into the culture and what now remains behind. From gospel and soul to film, television, activism, and sport, the deaths cut across generations. […]

January 5, 2026 2

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Los Angeles Police Are Still Shooting Too Many People – BlackPressUSA

THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Contributing ColumnistLos Angeles Wave Mayor Karen Bass called the report “disturbing.” It was more, much more, than that. It was appalling. The Los Angeles Police Department continues to be the runaway leader among the nation’s police departments in the use of deadly force. Other reports show that of all the nation’s police departments the LAPD is the one that year in and year out leads all departments in the number of officer-involved shootings. […]

January 5, 2026 2

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Trump Says He Is Saving Nigerian Christians. History Knows This Story Well. – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Donald Trump says U.S. bombs fell on Nigeria to protect Christians. That explanation does not survive memory, geography, or fact. On Christmas Day, American missiles struck northern Nigeria. The administration said the targets were terrorists killing Christians. But the same administration had already stripped away humanitarian aid, dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, shut asylum doors, and blocked visas for Nigerians fleeing violence. The hand that claimed salvation had already […]

January 4, 2026 1

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Epstein Pressure Mounts As Trump Turns To Nigeria Strikes – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent As questions mounted over the heavily redacted release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and new material placing President Donald Trump closer to the late sex trafficker than previously acknowledged, the White House shifted abruptly to a familiar tactic. The president turned outward, announcing U.S. military strikes in Nigeria and framing the action as a defense of Christianity, while critics said the move functioned as a political diversion that again placed Black […]

December 29, 2025

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Did Trump Republicans Negotiate A Secret Deal for SNAP Benefits for Descendants of the Enslaved?

Did Trump Republicans broker a secret backdoor deal to redistribute SNAP benefits from Illegal Immigrants to the Descendants of the Enslaved? Resources say as a result of the Big Beautiful Bill and 2025 Emergency Quota Law, Republicans may have quietly added a line item to the budget specifically for Freedmen families, veterans, and war heroes. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), SNAP recipients are required to reapply for benefits as part of a national overhaul and crack […]

December 18, 2025 5

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Statue of Barbara Rose Johns, Virginia Civil Rights Activist, Replaces Robert E Lee Statue in the U.S. Capitol – BlackPressUSA

By Lauren Victoria BurkeBlackPressUSA Newswire Contributor “The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United States to preserve the brutal institution of chattel slavery,” said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries standing on stage at the U.S. Capitol on December 16. The line earned applause and Leader Jeffries was cheered loudly before saying a word as […]

December 17, 2025 3

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Evan Turnage Announces Run for Congress, Targeting Longtime Incumbent Bennie Thompson – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Jackson, Mississippi native Evan Turnage, a 33-year-old antitrust lawyer and former top Senate counsel, formally entered the race for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District on December 17, setting up a Democratic primary challenge to longtime incumbent Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson in the March 10, 2026, election. Turnage, who grew up in Jackson after being born in Cleveland, Mississippi, launched his campaign by drawing attention to persistent economic hardship in the district, which […]

December 17, 2025 2

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Racism, Resentment, and Politics in Health Care Are Even More Unaffordable – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent As millions of Americans brace for health insurance bills that will soon double or worse, the coming crisis is not the result of confusion or accident. It is the consequence of a long campaign that treated health care not as a human necessity, but as a battleground for grievance, race, and political spite. At the center of that reckoning is the Affordable Care Act, the same law that will soon become […]

December 15, 2025 1

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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 […]

December 12, 2025