By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Out across the long stretches of the country—where the roads narrow, the hospitals disappear, and the winters sit heavy—health insurance is not an abstraction. It is a quiet bargain that keeps families from slipping into ruin. That bargain is now on the edge of collapse. […]
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Race Shadows Every Assault on the Affordable Care Act
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent The battles over the Affordable Care Act were never only about policy or the price of insurance. They were never simply arguments about federal subsidies, individual mandates, or the markets that hold the system together. From the moment America elected a Black president and that […]
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill Strips Nursing of Professional Status as Black Women Across the Nation Brace for Devastating Consequences
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent The Trump administration has declared that nursing is not a professional degree, striking directly at the heart of America’s healthcare workforce and landing hardest on Black women, who make up nearly 13 percent of the national healthcare labor force and almost 10 percent of registered […]
MacKenzie Scott’s Billion-Dollar Defiance of America’s War on Diversity
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent There are moments in American life when truth steps forward and refuses to be convenient. MacKenzie Scott has chosen such a moment. As political forces move to strip diversity from classrooms, silence Black scholarship and erase equity from public life, she has gone in the […]
Trump’s War on Obamacare Continues as GOP Kills Subsidies
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Republican power in this country has chosen cruelty as policy. It is not an accident. It is not a mistake. It is a decision. The decision now is to rip out the federal subsidies that have made the Affordable Care Act more than a slogan […]
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The Hunger Line: America’s Most Vulnerable Face a Crisis of Cruelty
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent There are moments when a nation shows its soul. This is one of them. Across America, millions are waiting for food assistance that will not come. The Trump administration’s refusal to release federal contingency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — known as SNAP […]
Trust in Mainstream Media at a New Low, But the Black Press Stands as the Trusted Voice
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Trust in America’s mainstream media has fallen to its lowest level on record. Gallup reports that only 28 percent of adults say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. […]
Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent The dismissal of Karen Attiah from the Washington Post has become more than a personnel decision. It is a scarlet warning, a reminder of what has long haunted the American press: the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when […]
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Trump’s War on America Ramps up with Vow Not to Pay Federal Workers
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent The White House has continued to wage war against the American people — not through bombs or foreign troops, but through policies that strip workers of their dignity, their pay, and their hope. The cruelty is no accident. It is deliberate, orchestrated, and flaunted as […]
Trump and GOP Drive Shutdown While Families Face Soaring Premiums
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent MAGA Republicans have shut down the government once again after lawmakers failed to strike a deal to keep the lights on, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay and millions of Americans facing the possibility of losing affordable health care. At the center of […]
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