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  •  | View between colleagues with focus on African professional in early 30s looking across conference table at young associate smiling and gesturing as she speaks Photo by Johnny Greig | MR Online

    Disdain for the poor: Job Corps shutdown sparks outrage

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on June 4, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Jun 06, 2025)

    Programs that create opportunity, equity, and stability are being dismantled to make way for budget cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy.

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    Billions ripped from minority-owned firms under Trump

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on June 2, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Jun 04, 2025)

    The Trump administration is dismantling the very programs created to correct generations of systemic racism and economic exclusion—programs that helped level the playing field for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and women entrepreneurs.

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    Dr. Amos C. Brown calls out Smithsonian over returned artifacts, warns of Trump-era attacks on Black History

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on April 30, 2025 by BlackPress of America (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 22, 2025)

    Dr. Brown said the museum had previously asked to keep the items permanently. “Now, all of a sudden, you can have it back,” he said. “There was no conversation. Just an email.”

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    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 15, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 19, 2025)

    The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a judicial doctrine that for years shielded law enforcement officers from civil liability in police shooting cases by allowing courts to assess force based only on the final moments before an officer pulled the trigger.

  •  | Law concept habeas corpus Under United States law a writ of habeas corpus is a command from a court to the custodian of a particular individual usually the state or federal prison system to release that individual A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a common mechanism by which a criminal case can be reviewed even after the appellate process has run its course | MR Online

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    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 12, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 14, 2025)

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE—the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus—a constitutional right that allows individuals to challenge unlawful detention.

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    Sounding the alarm

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 5, 2025 by April Ryan (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 07, 2025)

    In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw University; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said, “I will probably get fired at some point,” Bunch said. “But I think the goal would be to, sort of, fight the fight as long as you can.”

  •  | December 29 2024 Washington DC Department of Education building in Washington DC with American Flag Photo by Greggory DiSalvo | MR Online

    The Department of Education is collecting delinquent Student Loan Debt

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on April 23, 2025 by April Ryan (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Apr 25, 2025)

    The Department of Education will withhold money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits, garnish federal employee wages, and withhold federal pensions from people who have defaulted on their student loan debt.

  •  | National Museum of African American History and Culture | MR Online

    Trump orders purge of Black History from Smithsonian, targets African American Museum

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on March 28, 2025 by Stacy M. Brown (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Apr 18, 2025)

    The executive order is chillingly titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It declares that the Smithsonian, once a symbol of “American excellence,” has become tainted by narratives that portray “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”

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    We must have a new Poor People’s Campaign and Moral Revival

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on September 11, 2017 by Bishop William J. Barber, II (President, Repairers of the Breach) (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Sep 12, 2017)

    Channeling the incisive analysis of our best historians, TaNehisi Coates cut through the talking points of political pundits last week to name Donald Trump America’s “First White president.” Writing for The Atlantic, the National Book Award recipient made clear how there could be no Donald Trump without President Obama. The chaos from which the whole world now suffers is a direct result of the backlash against racial progress in America.

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