BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The March of Dimes has released its 2025 Report Card, and across the United States, the findings tell a story of mothers and...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The country’s most dependable safety net is changing again, and this time, many fear it will fall hardest on the people who have...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — While the overall unemployment rate held steady between June 2024 and June 2025, joblessness among Black workers rose by more than half a...
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 — Millions of Americans are facing steeper barriers to mental health care as the Trump administration dismantles protections designed to hold insurers accountable.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A disturbing discovery in Maryland has reignited calls for urgent reform to the state’s youth justice system, one that critics say still reflects...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked a key rule that would have removed medical debt from the credit reports of roughly 15 million...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — As record-breaking heat waves sweep across the country this summer, a new national poll reveals an overwhelming majority of Americans are linking the...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Prostate cancer remains one of the most common forms of cancer among men, second only to skin cancer, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a judicial doctrine that for years shielded law enforcement officers from civil liability in police shooting cases...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — With small business optimism waning and federal support shifting away from equity initiatives, many Black entrepreneurs now face a chilling reality
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — videos featuring journalist Charles Blow and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who delivered searing critiques of a House Judiciary Committee vote that, as Crockett...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — By the 2010s, the rate had declined to 1,073 per 100,000 for Black infants and 499 per 100,000 for white infants, yet the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Joint Center co-authored a report with the Center for Economic and Policy Research examining Black Americans’ economic insecurity despite record-low unemployment rates,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — House Republicans unveiled a budget resolution on Wednesday that slashes federal spending by $2 trillion while providing up to $4.5 trillion in tax...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The newly reintroduced bill would create a 15-member commission to study concrete solutions to the Black Wall Street Tulsa Massacre. Also, the new...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Black Americans face double the death rate of white Americans for prostate, stomach, and uterine cancers. For breast cancer, Black women are more...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The decision marked the broadest use of clemency powers by any U.S. president, specifically targeting those who were disproportionately affected by harsh sentencing laws...
“The legacy of Jim Crow is not just a legacy in Alameda County. It's real. It is what is happening and how (the system is) operating,...
Environmental researchers confirmed in a study released last week that people in California breathe cleaner air today than they did 25 years ago, but Black and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With an over two times higher mortality rate for black infants compared to their white counterparts. These numbers paint a dire picture that...
The following letter to California’s elected leadership was jointly authored last month by Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, and Miguel Santana, president and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The central inquiry of the study focused on whether officer-involved killings of unarmed Black individuals are associated with adverse sleep health outcomes in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Navy Federal approved a higher percentage of applications from white borrowers earning less than $62,000 annually than Black borrowers earning $140,000 or more....