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During a December 2021 trip to Paris, Vice President Kamala Harris purchased a $375 cooking pot. America's mainstream media didn't approve. The media lamented high inflation in the United States and said that her purchase came as American residents barely made ends meet. "After a very significant and highly successful bilateral meeting in France on issues that are about national security, on issues that are about climate, on issues that are about what we are doing in terms of international norms...
For centuries, there's been a false assumption that Black fathers are absent, apathetic, and uninvolved in their children's lives. The stereotype of the absent Black dad remains quite ubiquitous in popular culture. It often takes the form of a dysfunctional family unit, but in recent years, studies have proven that the stereotype is nothing more than a myth. That legend is further vaporized in the new children's book, "I Love My Daddy," by Maryland social worker and military veteran Juanita...
It is a change from the 2016 recommendation, in which the task force recommended that biennial mammograms (breast x-rays) begin at age 50 and that the decision for women to screen in their 40s "should be an individual one." According to a new draft recommendation statement, the US Preventive Services Task Force proposes that women with an average risk for breast cancer begin screening at age 40 to reduce their risk of death. It is a change from the 2016 recommendation, in which the task force re...
President Joe Biden proved likely as funny and prescient in his White House Correspondents Dinner remarks as hired comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. But the commander in chief struck a rather serious and forceful tone during his 22-minute speech when he declared how vital the Black Press remains after 196 years of speaking truth to power. After hilariously railing on everyone from Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the president...
The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches toward her, which led to his lynching and murder in Mississippi in 1955, has died. According to a coroner's report, Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died while receiving hospice care in Louisiana. A death record issued on Thursday, April 27, in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office noted that Donham died in Westlake, Louisiana, two nights earlier. Donham's false claims against Emmett Till set off a...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to expand on his administration's environmental justice goals, which include delivering clean air and water to communities nationwide. The first of its kind order establishes the Office of Environmental Justice at the White House. "For far too long, communities across our country have faced persistent environmental injustice through toxic pollution, underinvestment in infrastructure and critical services, and other disproportionate environmental...
The National Urban League's 2023 State of Black America report concluded that an uptick in police brutality, specifically against Black Americans, is no coincidence. Across the nation, white supremacist groups and domestic terror cells have infiltrated law enforcement and the military ranks, posing a threat to homeland security and the public. The report highlights five topics revealed as troubling threats: 1. A hate manifesto: The Rise in Violent Hate Crimes Across America. 2. Tracking...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced awards totaling $5.5 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to conduct housing and community development research. The announcement came during a Black Media Roundtable hosted by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge. Adjoa Asamoah, HUD's senior advisor for Racial Equity; Melody Taylor, regional director for the Mid-Atlantic Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; Alanna McCargo, president of Ginnie Mae; and...
Former President Donald Trump is now criminal defendant Donald Trump. For at least several moments on Tuesday, April 4, Trump was placed under arrest. His Miranda rights read, and fingerprints taken, but authorities spared him a mugshot and customary perp walk. Still, as he headed to the 15th floor courtroom at 100 Centre Street downtown, Trump joined the nearly 8,000 other non-violent felony defendants who have been arraigned in Manhattan so far in 2023. Shortly before 2 p.m. EST, Trump became...
Former President Barack Obama's signature piece of legislation has proved the gift that's kept on giving for Black and Brown communities in America. Since its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act – better known as Obamacare – has helped cut the U.S. uninsured rate nearly in half while significantly reducing racial and ethnic disparities in both insurance coverage and access to care – particularly in states that expanded their Medicaid programs, according to a new report issued by the Commo...
As he visited Monterey Park, California, on Tuesday, President Joe Biden lamented that every few days in the United States, the country mourns a new mass shooting. Biden argued that daily acts of gun violence, including community violence, domestic violence, suicide, and accidental shootings, may not always make the evening news. Still, they cut lives short and leave survivors and their communities with long-lasting physical and mental wounds. Before the President met with the families and...
Obesity Care Week 2023 (OCW) kicked off on Monday, Feb. 27, with a focus on the disproportionate impact of obesity on communities of color. Health officials responsible for OCW said racial and ethnic minorities have a higher rate of chronic diseases. African Americans have the highest rate of chronic diseases. According to recent data, almost 50% of African Americans have obesity, and approximately 4 out of 5 Black women have overweight or obesity. The causes of obesity are complex, and a...
Carolyn Davis, like many others, had an immediate reaction to the destruction in Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion. "Those folks need help," said Davis, the CEO of the District of Columbia-based CDAG International. To help, her construction company visited areas of the war-torn country where civilians and military personnel alike needed assistance. Davis said her group had installed "living containers and living facilities" that provided families with things like furniture and bunk beds, as...
As 2022 closed, Black Americans saw gains with historic candidates and timely legislation. President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act and later, the Respect for Marriage Act, which protected interracial marriages. A slim majority in Congress prevented other significant bills from reaching the president's desk. As Black History Month begins, there remains key issues that African Americans want to see happen. A December poll of Black voters revealed that African Americans want...
t's possible that after the bitter campaign for House Speaker ended on January 7th, Americans – especially Black Americans – felt a strong sense of déjà vu. New York Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries provided a masterclass on leadership and served up a clear reminder of what an up-and-coming senator from Illinois named Barack Obama once did during a divided America. "Progress asserted itself tonight, manifested in [Hakeem] Jeffries, even amidst a hostile takeover of the House by neo–f...
Recent Census numbers show that the Biden-Harris administration set a new high for the number of new small businesses created. The U.S. SBA administrator, Isabella Guzman, stated that the rate of new business applications in 2022 was slightly lower than in 2021, but still showed excellent growth under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. According to Guzman, "Small business applications hit a high of 10.5 million since the start of this administration, the largest in any two yea...
It was supposed to be a part-time job. But the workload, travel requirements and responsibilities made Keturah Lee's IT program management position as stressful as any full-time job. The Northeast Washington resident was working for a federal agency less than 30 hours a week when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. "But I was doing a full-time person's job," she said. "It was extremely stressful. I was trying to carry all the responsibility and not drop the ball. It was a never-ending cycle. I...
In 2017, Reesy Floyd-Thompson, who calls herself a "digital wonder woman," said she had to deal with the shame of the incarceration of a significant other. Her husband's incarceration also meant that calling him would be difficult, if not impossible. "I used to maintain a side hustle to take care of these calls alone. My husband and I used to endure monthly bills as high as $500 to stay connected," said Floyd-Thompson, who headed an organization called "Prisoner's Wives, Girlfriends, and...
The Black Press of America entered its 195th year in 2022, highly engaged in the continued fight for freedom, justice, equity, and equality. Just one year after the Jan. 6 insurrection not only threatened America's democracy but freedom for people of color, the United States and the hundreds of millions of news consumers demonstrated a need for the Black Press like never before. Fake News and the growing number of overt racists who dispensed misinformation and false reports had taken over...
Critics immediately threw cold water on a new FBI 2021 Hate Crime Statistics Act Report released by U.S. Department of Justice officials on Monday, Dec. 12. Margaret Huang, the president, and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said while underreporting of hate crimes to the FBI remains an ongoing problem, the failure of state and local jurisdictions to report data makes the new report worse. Over one-third of the nation's 18,000 federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies fai...
On the surface, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act sounds like a win for news organizations that remain committed to providing vital information for their communities. It also sounds suitable for the survival of important local news. However, like many pieces of legislation that float around Capitol Hill, flaws abound. Intended to support local journalism, the bill introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) would create a link tax on social media platforms. The bill suggests lawmakers...
After 294 days in Russian custody, including the past several weeks in a dreaded and dangerous penal colony, WNBA star Brittney Griner is free. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Griner's wife at the White House, where they spoke with the basketball player on the telephone. "She's safe. She's on a plane. She is on her way home," Biden declared. The Biden administration secured Griner's release after agreeing to a one-for-one prisoner swap that saw the president...
For the second time in as many years, voters in Georgia have delivered a Senate runoff victory for Democrats. Incumbent Raphael Warnock, who won a runoff in January 2021 against Republican Kelly Loeffler, defeated GOP nominee Herschel Walker on Tuesday in a close contest that saw both candidates earn nearly 2 million votes. Warnock's victory underscored the major disappointment experienced by the GOP after pundits and Republicans anticipated a so-called red wave that never materialized....
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Monday, Dec. 5, it would extend for two years the REAL ID full enforcement, from May 3, 2023, to May 7, 2025. Officials deemed it important to allow states additional time to ensure residents have driver's licenses and identification cards that meet the security standards established by the REAL ID Act. As required by the law, following the enforcement deadline, federal agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),...
A new exhibition debuting next spring at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will celebrate Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther hero costume. "Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures," opens on March 24, 2023, and feature the late actor's iconic gear. Black Panther counts as the first superhero of African descent to appear in mainstream American comics, and the film is the first major cinematic production on the character. "Investigating Afrofuturist...
