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Knockouts Rule Don King’s Boxing Extravaganza Peace and Freedom for Ukraine Trumpet

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Weaving in a plight as grave as the threat of World War III into a heavyweight world championship can only be done by the brilliance and courage of a man who recognized his platform with two relatively unknown pugilist wasn’t enough to compete for the attention of a nation months free of a deadly pandemic.
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By Kenneth Miller, Publisher Inglewood Today

MAIMI, FL—Three national anthems, six championships fights, 200 school children, NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, pleas for Ukraine and electric knockouts were the theatre for iconic promoter Don King at his suspense and drama filled ‘Fight for Freedom and Peace’ boxing showcase ‘at Casino Miami on Saturday June 11th.

It’s customary for anthems to be played for the countries that fighters represent in a main event, but never in the history of the sport has an ally nation been saluted as King did with Ukraine.

LEGENDS—Iconic boxing promoter and ‘Indefatigable Advocate for Freedom and Peace; Don King is joined by Hall of Fame heavyweight Larry Holmes and NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor at ‘The Fight for Freedom and Peace’ boxing extravaganza on June 11 at Casino Miami in South Florida. (Don King Productions Photos)

LEGENDS—Iconic boxing promoter and ‘Indefatigable Advocate for Freedom and Peace; Don King is joined by Hall of Fame heavyweight Larry Holmes and NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor at ‘The Fight for Freedom and Peace’ boxing extravaganza on June 11 at Casino Miami in South Florida. (Don King Productions Photos)

Weaving in a plight as grave as the threat of World War III into a heavyweight world championship can only be done by the brilliance and courage of a man who recognized his platform with two relatively unknown pugilist wasn’t enough to compete for the attention of a nation months free of a deadly pandemic.

British fighter Daniel ‘Dynamite’ Dubois (18-1, 17 KOs) pummeled an out of shape and lethargic American Trevor ‘The Dream’ Bryan (22-1, 15 KOs) who was aptly put asleep in a fourth round knockout when the Brit detonated the dynamite by whacking Bryan with a devastating left hook, snatching his WBA crown after just two defenses.

Bryan did all of the boasting during the promotion and even attempted to humiliate his powerful challenger by tossing tampons at Dubois feet during the weigh-in the day before, but in the conclusion, Bryan was the one who suffered utter embarrassment, shame and disgust right in front of his Hall of Fame promoter.

Humbled by his defeat Bryan spoke of career redemption after digesting his first defeat.

“I haven’t tasted defeat since the amateurs and that was almost 15 years ago. True champions get up and finish the fight get up and keep going, that’s what really makes a true champion. All the best had a lost on their record and came back to do even better things. This is not the last you are going to see of Trevor Bryan. I’m looking to dissect what I did tonight, but I can say that I am really disappointed because I didn’t do half the stuff I know how to do best,” the dejected former champion said. “Dubois is a big heavyweight, so I can say that he did bring the pressure and did what he was supposed to do tonight. I give a shoutout to Dubois because he’s the champion now.”

Bryan’s veteran trainer Stacy McKinley, who has worked with former champions Tony ‘TNT’ Tucker and Mike Tyson didn’t mice his description about his dethroned combatant.

MAC ATTACKED—Jonathan ‘King’ Guidry caught previously undefeated DaCarree ‘Mac Truck’ Scott right on the jaw with a left hook from Dulac, Louisiana sending Scott to the canvas for good enroute to taking Scott’s NABA Gold heavyweight championship in the co-feature on June 11 at Casino Miami on Don King’s ‘The Fight for Freedom and Peace’ boxing extravaganza. (Don King Productions Photo)

MAC ATTACKED—Jonathan ‘King’ Guidry caught previously undefeated DaCarree ‘Mac Truck’ Scott right on the jaw with a left hook from Dulac, Louisiana sending Scott to the canvas for good enroute to taking Scott’s NABA Gold heavyweight championship in the co-feature on June 11 at Casino Miami on Don King’s ‘The Fight for Freedom and Peace’ boxing extravaganza. (Don King Productions Photo)

“What happen tonight is we lost. Trevor didn’t come out fighting, he didn’t come out and stick to the fight plan. The other guy came out fighting and you just can’t stand there and let the other guy punch him, you gotta throw something back.”

Bryan now holds the infamous distinction of becoming the second King champion to lose his championship in his second title defense joining Bermaine Stiverne who since losing the WBC belt has won just once in his last four fights including suffering three consecutive knockouts.

Whether Bryan meets a similar fate remains to be seen, but his precipitous fall from grace at 32 years of age will only make his climb that much steeper.

In the co-feature attraction, streamed on Donking.com, the man who nearly took Bryans title six months ago in January, Louisiana’s Jonathan ‘King’ Guidry (18-1,2, 5 KOs) demonstrated the heart if a lion in capturing the NABA Gold Heavyweight Championship in a gritty and gutty performance against previously undefeated DaCarree ‘Mac Truck’ Scott (7-1,6 KOs) scoring a devasting knockout.

“I wore him down, Mac Truck ran out of gas. The fuel prices are high right now,” an ecstatic Guidry declared while celebrating his victory in the ring, leaping on the ropes and inhaling the applause of the hundreds of fans that made the trek from Dulac, Louisiana.

Dulac is a small town in Terrebonne Parish of Louisiana with a population of just 2,458, known for fishing and Guidry works on a shrimp boat, but he caught his biggest prize in winning a title.

Promoted by King he figures to be in the mix for another and perhaps more significant strap down the road.

Other fighters who enjoyed stellar performances was Newburgh, New York NABA welterweight champion Tre’Sean ‘Trigger’ Wiggins (14-5-3, 8 KOs) who scored a scintillating first round TKO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida native Travis Castellon (17-5-1, 12 KOs).

Wiggins stole the show on King’s Warren, Ohio card in January and again displayed the moxie of an unheralded rising prospect to retain his NABA Welterweight title.

“I stand behind what I say, I said I was going to steal the show and my focus is at an all-time high and I’m going to continue to steal the show until I am the headliner. Now, I got a good team behind me, I got Don King behind me and the sky is the limit,” said Wiggins.

Tony Gonzales managed Luis Rodriguez (9-0) of Toa, Alta, Puerto Rico, a rising star was a crushing KO winner over St. Louis, MO opponent Ryan Adams (8-5, 6 KOs) and newly King signee Cuban born super lightweight Raynel Mederos (6-0, 1 KO) of Miami blasted Ryan Wilson (1-1, 1 KO) in the first round.

Ian Green (16-2, 11 KOs) of Haledon, New Jersey scored a unanimous decision win over Niagara Falls, NY Anthony Lenk (17-9, 7 KOs) to earn the WBA Continental Americas Middleweight Championship; and in a fight of the night contest to Floridians Johnnie Langston (11-3, 4 KOs)  of Sarasota outlasted Isiah Thompson (6-2-1, 5 KOs) to retain the NABA Cruiserweight championship.

For more than 50 years, King has continued to add to his legacy as being more than a boxing promoter, but moreover  an ‘Indefatigable Advocate for Peace and Women’s Rights’ and with ‘Fight for Freedom and Peace’ for Ukraine, a quest to save all of humanity for the world.

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Fighting to Keep Blackness

BlackPressUSA NEWSWIRE — Trump supporters have introduced another bill to take down the bright yellow letters of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., in exchange for the name Liberty Plaza. D.C.

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As this nation observes the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, the words of President Trump reverberate. “This country will be WOKE no longer”, an emboldened Trump offered during his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Since then, Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell posted on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter this morning that “Elon Musk and his DOGE bros have ordered GSA to sell off the site of the historic Freedom Riders Museum in Montgomery.” Her post of little words went on to say, “This is outrageous and we will not let it stand! I am demanding an immediate reversal. Our civil rights history is not for sale!” DOGE trying to sell Freedom Rider Museum

Also, in the news today, the Associated Press is reporting they have a file of names and descriptions of more than 26,000 military images flagged for removal because of connections to women, minorities, culture, or DEI. In more attempts to downplay Blackness, a word that is interchanged with woke, Trump supporters have introduced another bill to take down the bright yellow letters of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., in exchange for the name Liberty Plaza. D.C. Mayor Morial Bowser is allowing the name change to keep millions of federal dollars flowing there. Black Lives Matter Plaza was named in 2020 after a tense exchange between President Trump and George Floyd protesters in front of the White House. There are more reports about cuts to equity initiatives that impact HBCU students. Programs that recruited top HBCU students into the military and the pipeline for Department of Defense contracts have been canceled.

Meanwhile, Democrats are pushing back against this second-term Trump administration’s anti-DEI and Anti-woke message. In the wake of the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, several Congressional Black Caucus leaders are reintroducing the Voting Rights Act. South Carolina Democratic Congressman James Clyburn and Alabama Congresswoman Terry Sewell are sponsoring H.R. 14, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Six decades ago, Lewis was hit with a billy club by police as he marched for the right to vote for African Americans. The right for Black people to vote became law with the 1965 Voting Rights Act that has since been gutted, leaving the nation to vote without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. Reflecting on the late Congressman Lewis, March 1, 2020, a few months before his death, Lewis said, “We need more than ever in these times many more someones to make good trouble- to make their own dent in the wall of injustice.”

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Rep. Al Green is Censured by The U.S. House After Protesting Trump on Medicaid

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — His censure featured no hearing at the House Ethics Committee and his punishment was put on the floor for a vote by the Republican controlled House less than 72 hours after the infraction in question.

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In one of the quickest punishments of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the modern era, Congressman Al Green (D-TX) was censured by a 224-198 vote today in the House. His censure featured no hearing at the House Ethics Committee and his punishment was put on the floor for a vote by the Republican controlled House less than 72 hours after the infraction in question. Of the last three censures of members of the U.S. House, two have been members of the Congressional Black Caucus under GOP control. In 2023, Rep. Jamal Bowman was censured.

On the night of March 4, as President Trump delivered a Joint Address to Congress, Rep. Green interrupted him twice. Rep. Green shouted, “You don’t have a mandate to cut Medicare, and you need to raise the cap on social security,” to President Trump. In another rare event, Rep. Green was escorted off the House floor by security shortly after yelling at the President by order of GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson. Over the last four years, members of Congress have yelled at President Biden during the State of the Union. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor-Greene was joined by Republican Rep. Lauren Bobert (R-CO) in 2022 in yelling at President Biden. In 2023, Rep. Greene, Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) yelled at Biden, interrupting his speech. In 2024, wearing a red MAGA hat, a violation of the rules of the U.S. House, Greene interrupted Biden again. She was never censured for her behavior. Rep. Green voted “present” on his censure and was joined by freshman Democrat Congressman Shomari Figures of Alabama who also voted “present”.

All other members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against censuring Green. Republicans hold a four-seat advantage in the U.S. House after the death of Texas Democrat and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner yesterday. Ten Democrats voted along with Republicans to censure Rep. Green, including Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who is in the leadership as the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. “I respect them but, I would do it again,” and “it is a matter of conscience,” Rep. Green told Black Press USA’s April Ryan in an exclusive interview on March 5. After the vote, a group of Democrats sang “We Shall Overcome” in the well at the front of the House chamber. Several Republican members attempted to shout down the singing. House Speaker Mike Johnson gaveled the House out of session and into a recess. During the brief recess members moved back to their seats and out of the well of the House. Shortly after the vote to censor Rep. Green, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee quickly filed legislation to punish members who participated in the singing of “We Shall Overcome.” Earlier this year, Rep. Ogles filed legislation to allow President Donald Trump to serve a third term, which is currently unconstitutional. As the debate started, the stock market dove down over one-point hours from close. The jobs report will be made public tomorrow.

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Trump Moves to Dismantle Education Department

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The department oversees programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), serving 7.5 million students. Transferring IDEA oversight to another agency, as Trump’s plan suggests, could jeopardize services and protections for disabled students.

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The Trump administration is preparing to issue an executive order directing newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the Department of Education. While the president lacks the authority to unilaterally shut down the agency—requiring congressional approval—McMahon has been tasked with taking “all necessary steps” to reduce its role “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” The administration justifies the move by claiming the department has spent over $1 trillion since its 1979 founding without improving student achievement. However, data from The Nation’s Report Card shows math scores have improved significantly since the 1990s, though reading levels have remained stagnant. The pandemic further widened achievement gaps, leaving many students behind.

The Education Department provides about 10% of public-school funding, primarily targeting low-income students, rural districts, and children with disabilities. A recent Data for Progress poll found that 61% of voters oppose Trump’s efforts to abolish the agency, while just 34% support it. In Washington, D.C., where student proficiency rates remain low—22% in math and 34% in English—federal funding is crucial. Serenity Brooker, an elementary education major, warned that cutting the department would worsen conditions in underfunded schools.

“D.C. testing scores aren’t very high right now, so cutting the Department of Education isn’t going to help that at all,” she told Hilltop News. A report from the Education Trust found that low-income schools in D.C. receive $2,200 less per student than wealthier districts, leading to shortages in essential classroom materials. The department oversees programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), serving 7.5 million students. Transferring IDEA oversight to another agency, as Trump’s plan suggests, could jeopardize services and protections for disabled students.

The Office for Civil Rights also plays a key role in enforcing laws that protect students from discrimination. Moving it to the Department of Justice, as proposed in Project 2025, would make it harder for families to file complaints, leaving vulnerable students with fewer protections. Federal student aid programs, including Pell Grants and loan repayment plans, could face disruption if the department is dismantled. Experts warn this could worsen the student debt crisis, pushing more borrowers into default. “With funding cuts, they don’t have the materials they need, like books or things to help with math,” Brooker said. “It makes learning less fun for them.”

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