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Van Jones reveals the DM he got from Charlie Kirk the day before he was killed

CNN political commentator Van Jones revealed that Charlie Kirk had sent him a direct message the day before he was murdered at a speaking event in Utah. The two media personalities had been arguing publicly online about the murder of a white Ukrainian woman named Iryna Zarutska. The suspect charged with stabbing and killing Zarutska in August is Decarlos Brown, a Black man. Kirk had claimed that the attack was racially motivated, while Jones responded that those claims were unfounded. […]

todaySeptember 21, 2025 2

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Headlines and Hot Topics – BlackPressUSA

Reverend Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. In her autobiography, my long-term personal friend, civil rights leader, and scholar Angela Davis wrote that “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” That “zoo” is the United States. Despite being the wealthiest and most developed nation in the world, America cages more people than any other country. In fact, nearly two million people […]

todaySeptember 20, 2025 2

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Resolution Honoring Charlie Kirk Becomes Critical Test for the Black Caucus – BlackPressUSA

Reverend Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. In her autobiography, my long-term personal friend, civil rights leader, and scholar Angela Davis wrote that “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” That “zoo” is the United States. Despite being the wealthiest and most developed nation in the world, America cages more people than any other country. In fact, nearly two million people […]

todaySeptember 20, 2025 2

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Kamala Harris considered Pete Buttigieg as running mate, thought a Black woman-gay man ticket too risky

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir-meets-retrospective book “107 Days” is slated to hit shelves on Tuesday, September 23, and bits and pieces that have been released to promote it have been quite telling.  It turns out, Americans could’ve had a ticket that was diverse in multiple ways. In a second alleged leak of pages from her book, provided to The Atlantic, Harris speaks about deciding on a running mate. While that nod eventually went to Minnesota Governor, and former Congressman […]

todaySeptember 19, 2025 1

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Lawmakers in Handcuffs After Protesting ICE Detention in Manhattan – BlackPressUSA

Reverend Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. In her autobiography, my long-term personal friend, civil rights leader, and scholar Angela Davis wrote that “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” That “zoo” is the United States. Despite being the wealthiest and most developed nation in the world, America cages more people than any other country. In fact, nearly two million people […]

todaySeptember 19, 2025 1

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Trump redistricting push threatens minority representation. Black voters worry about its impact

The Rev. Emanuel Cleaver III wants a second Civil Rights Movement in response to President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who are redrawing congressional district boundaries to increase their power in Washington. In Missouri, the GOP’s effort comes at the expense of Cleaver’s father, Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, and many of his Kansas City constituents who fear a national redistricting scramble will reverse gains Black Americans won two generations ago and leave them without effective representation on Capitol Hill. “If we, the people of […]

todaySeptember 19, 2025 1

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‘We, the People, deserve better’: Kamala Harris joins chorus condemning Trump pressure to suspend Jimmel Kimmel

Former Vice President Kamala Harris joined a chorus of elected officials and political figures condemning the Trump administration for pressuring media conglomerates to suspend Jimmy Kimmel from his decades-long late-night television show. “What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power,” said Harris in a public statement released Thursday. The former 2024 presidential opponent to now-President Donald Trump continued, “This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out.” The former […]

todaySeptember 19, 2025 1

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Headlines and Hot Topics – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Six years ago this month, Bill Cosby was sentenced to prison. For some, it was the spectacle of a fallen idol. For others, it was the raw proof that this nation, still drunk on its own lies, can summon racism from the judge’s bench, let it seep into the prosecutor’s chair, and finally stain the jury box. What was lost, what was deliberately hidden, is that Cosby—blind, wealthy, eighty years old—could […]

todaySeptember 19, 2025