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Graves Near Youth Prison Spotlight Maryland’s Legacy of Injustice – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent A disturbing discovery in Maryland has reignited calls for urgent reform to the state’s youth justice system, one that critics say still reflects the racism and cruelty of its 19th-century past. In a wooded area near the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Prince George’s County, at least 100 unmarked graves of Black children—some dating back to the 1800s—have been uncovered near the former House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. […]

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The federal government is shut down. Here’s why Democrats say Trump and Republicans are to blame

The federal government officially shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, leaving federal workers without pay, and federal agencies shuttered. But who is to blame for the federal shutdown depends on who you ask in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are pointing fingers at Democrats after the two parties failed to reach a bipartisan deal to fund the government past Oct. 1. “After months of making life harder and more expensive, Donald Trump and Republicans have […]

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Eric Adams staffer details ‘hidden’ romantic relationship with NYC mayor in new book

A former staffer for New York City Mayor Eric Adams is opening up about their past “hidden” romantic relationship in a new tell-all book. Jasmine Ray, former director of the Mayor’s Office of Sports, Wellness, and Recreation, details her love story with Mayor Adams in “Political Humanity,” which is described as a “Memoir of love, legacy, and New York City Politics.” “From the shadows of City Hall to the silence of closed-door meetings, Jasmine Ray reveals her untold role in […]

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Video of Jasmine Crockett calling out Byron Donalds for bill revoking juvenile crime reform he benefited from goes viral

A video of an exchange between U.S. Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and Byron Donalds, R-Fla., has gone viral, highlighting the ongoing political divide over public safety in the nation’s capital. Many, including comedian D.L. Hughley, shared the resurfaced encounter from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, reigniting the debate on criminal justice. On Sept. 17, the House passed Congressman Donalds’s bill, the DC Crimes Act of 2025, or H.R. 4922. Republicans championed the legislation for codifying President Donald […]

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Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent The dismissal of Karen Attiah from the Washington Post has become more than a personnel decision. It is a scarlet warning, a reminder of what has long haunted the American press: the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when it dares to speak of the nation’s truths. Attiah, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was terminated after more than a decade at […]

todayOctober 2, 2025

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Scott Turner, Trump’s lone Black Cabinet member, defends government shutdown ‘propaganda’ on HUD website

Scott Turner, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was confronted by Chris Cuomo on “NewsNation” on Tuesday after his department seemingly violated federal law to blame Democrats for the current government shutdown. Turner is facing scrutiny after a blaring red banner on HUD’s website read: “The radical left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump […]

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Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats. Rather than simply furlough employees, as is usually done during any lapse of funds, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said layoffs were “imminent.” The Office of Management and Budget announced it was putting on hold roughly $18 billion of infrastructure funds for New York’s subway and Hudson Tunnel projects — in the hometown of the […]

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Trump and GOP Drive Shutdown While Families Face Soaring Premiums – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent MAGA Republicans have shut down the government once again after lawmakers failed to strike a deal to keep the lights on, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay and millions of Americans facing the possibility of losing affordable health care. At the center of the crisis is a dispute over Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are demanding that subsidies be extended and that deep Medicaid cuts be reversed. […]

todayOctober 2, 2025

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‘This is their shutdown’: Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett react to government shutdown

The government has officially shut down, meaning that it has essentially run out of money. After both Republican and Democratic-backed bills that could have potentially funded the government to avoid a shutdown failed in the Senate, the country shut down at midnight. Now, many experts, like Claudia Grisales, NPR’s congressional correspondent, are calling this shutdown a “culmination of bitter, extreme partisan divide” in the nation’s capital.  Leading up to the shutdown, government websites like the U.S. Department of Housing and […]

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