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Raiders Embarrassed Across The Pond
London, England – It took going across the pond for the Raiders to experience their worst defeat of the season. After scoring on opening drive, Oakland looked lost for the remaining game. It appeared the play calls might’ve been the catalyst to this defeat. Nothing seemed in synch on both the offense and defense thus the Miami Dolphins handed the Raiders a 38-14 loss headed into their bye week.
< p>“Obviously, we did not play well,” head coach Dennis Allen said. “We turned the ball over, we did not stop them on defense. We gave up too many explosive plays.”
The usual laid back coach showed no signs of panic when addressed if he would still be head coach after the bye. In front of a sellout crowd of 83,436 Oakland had no defensive stops to slow the Dolphins offense down after they scored multiple touchdowns in each quarter. Derek Carr left the game with a knee injury in the third and Matt McGloin came in giving up two crucial turnovers in the process.
The Raiders had their best offensive drive this season. On opening drive Carr found James Jones for 30 yards and the first down. Carr then found two other open wide receivers before finding Brian Leonhardt in the end zone for the 3-yard touchdown. Carr moved the offense down field quickly and with ease. Oakland looked more like a playoff team than a team looking or their first win.
But that didn’t last long before the Raiders were shut down by Miami’s defense. Ryan Tannehill threw two touchdowns and completed 23 of 31 passes for 278 yards. He got a huge first down with a 35-yard pass to Brian Hartline to start their drive in the first. Then Tannehill threw a short 13-yard pass to Mike Wallace who bullied his way through the Raiders defense in the end zone for a touchdown to start the second quarter.
“I know I wasn’t playing up to standards the last few weeks, so I wanted to come out and personally play better,” said Tannehill. “My teammates demand that from me and they expect that from me, and to finally come out and do that felt good.”
The Raiders offense struggled in finding that momentum from their opening drive and failed to move the ball. The Dolphins defense dominated by smothering Carr and his offense throughout the second quarter. But the Raiders got lucky when Miami’s punt returner Jarvis Laundry fumbled the ball. But again Oakland’s offense flatlined and punted the ball away.
“We were feeling great, we were all hitting our assignments,” Carr said. “We were doing good things but things we did in practice this week; we messed up during the game after that drive. It’s just frustrating, little things like that but we’ll all go back to work, we’ll get better and get this thing right”
With two minutes left in the quarter Tannehill went deep to find a wide open Dion Sims for an 18-yard touchdown. The half ended with Miami up 23-7. Lamar Miller rushed for two more touchdowns, and cornerback Cortland Finnegan ran back a recovered fumble for a 50-yard touchdown.
Carr was taken out in the third quarter after injuring his left knee and ankle. He was replaced by Matt McGloin who tried to chase Finnegan after he recovered a bad snap by Oakland for a touchdown on his second play. He did find Andre Homes in the fourth for a 22-yard touchdown.
“It’s just a ankle sprain right now and a sprained MCL, I’ll be back after the bye,” explained Carr.
“Things started off good and then they unraveled after that and we never caught hold of the game,” Charles Woodson said. “At that point it was all downhill after that. It’s disappointing that we weren’t able to come out here and play better but hats off to the Dolphins because they came out and executed.”
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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.

By April Ryan
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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Oakland Post: Week of March 5 – 11, 2025
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of March 5 – 11, 2025

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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.

By Lauren Burke
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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