BLACKPRESSUSA.COM — Pharmaceutical manufacturers and their backers spent more than $400,000 in support of Virgina politicians 2024 for pro-pharma legislation. This tiny drop in their estimated...
BLACKPRESSUSA.COM — The result is a system defined by racial inequity. Black and Latino people, for example, make up roughly 30% of the total U.S. population...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The autopsy for Trey Reed is underway. The 21-year-old student of Delta State University was found dead hanging from a tree on the...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Six years ago this month, Bill Cosby was sentenced to prison. For some, it was the spectacle of a fallen idol. For others,...
In early 2025, Southern Miss hired Charles Huff as its first Black head football coach. Minority enrollment reached an all-time high—more than double what it was...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump administration has intensified its campaign to rewrite how America tells its history, ordering federal agencies to remove exhibits and materials that...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — It is 62 years later after the death of the four little girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — According to Attiah, she was the last full-time Black opinion columnist at The Post, where she was employed for 11 years. Other Black...
Week three concludes with tense matchups, thrilling comebacks, and a defensive back who won the game for his school. Here is a brief roundup of key...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The U.S. Department of Education has announced the cancellation of $350 million in federal grants that had been designated for historically Black colleges...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Black Press is two years away from its 200th anniversary. Two centuries of carrying our story when others denied us a voice.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a Montessori environment, your infant or toddler will be with teachers—loving, nurturing, and rigorously trained in child development—who create peaceful, supportive, and...
Given all that is happening, if the presidency was more like pole dancing, you know Trump would be flat on his butt.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists — and his blatant politicization of the agency — is a direct assault on the health and...
Wickersham calls his book “a biography,” but it’s just as much a history, since he refers often to the earliest days of the game, as well...
Banneker learned to read and write at a Quaker school that welcomed both Black and White children -- something very rare in the 1700s. He loved...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — As the Trump administration and its disciples try to strip the nation of its memory, legendary comedian Bill Cosby said Black media cannot...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of September 10 - 16, 2025
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — It wasn’t someone from “the radical left.” It wasn’t an “illegal immigrant,” and it wasn’t a person of color.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In the wake of the credible threats against nine HBCUs on Thursday, the UNCF Condemns Threats Against HBCUs and renews calls for federal...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) has released Forward Together: The Black Policy Playbook for an Equitable America, a sweeping set of recommendations...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Multiple Historically Black Colleges and Universities are on lockdown and or canceling classes due to what are called “credible threats.”
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — AmeriStarRail’s newly unveiled Libertyliner 250 plan is the latest in a series of proposals the Delaware-based company has presented to Amtrak in recent...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Broadway Across America (BAA) and Black Theatre Coalition (BTC) announce the launch of applications for their fifth annual regional apprenticeship program.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — As news of the violent shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University soon became an announcement of his death, news...