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. […]
With Seats of Congressional Black Caucus Members Under Attack, Trump Again Targets Rep. Ilhan Omar
With Seats of Congressional Black Caucus Members Under Attack, Trump Again Targets Rep. Ilhan Omar By Lauren Burke On December 4, during a White House cabinet meeting, President Trump launched into a hateful, racist rant against Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Those Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country. […]
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 […]
Don’t Let Predatory Debt Traps Rob the Holiday Season’s Joy
App-based loans could magnify financial stresses after government shutdown, says CRL By Charlene Crowell The holidays are coming, and many financially strapped families are considering how to responsibly manage their use of credit while still enjoying seasonal gatherings, presents, feasts and toasts of glad tidings for all. The yuletide season is also a time to […]
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 […]
The Shutdown Standoff
By April Ryan “We are not going to back down,” demanded House Minority Leader Congressman Hakeem Jeffries regarding healthcare for Americans. The Affordable Care Act is one of the key issues that created a stalemate between Democrats and Republicans, which resulted in the government shutdown. The New York Congressman says he is open to meeting […]
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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