By Spencer Overton One year after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a pattern emerges. Across dozens of executive orders, agency memos, funding decisions and enforcement changes, the administration has weakened federal civil rights law and the foundations of the country’s racially inclusive democracy. From the start, the U.S. was not built to include everyone equally. The Constitution ...

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Sr Natl Correspondent Rap Brown did not wait for permission to define himself. Long before federal agents called him a menace and politicians wrote laws in his name, he was a young man from Baton Rouge who believed the country needed an honest confrontation with its own history. ...

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and California’s former Secretary of State, joined U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) as well as voting rights advocates for a press conference to reintroduce the John R. ...

By Lauren Burke Citing Trump’s “attacking our democracy,” the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention this year. The decision marks the first time that America’s oldest civil rights organization will exclude a sitting president at its convention. In a statement last week, ...

By Dianne Anderson People who are scared to turn on their TV lately for what comes next may find some comfort with their local NAACP. Despite these uncertain times, Dr. Regina Patton-Stell is not fearful, but she is concerned. “This operation has been operational for 100 years, it’s not like we haven’t dealt with something ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent As if Black America and other minorities needed a reminder that the United States is under a dictatorship, the country is barreling toward one of the darkest periods in its 248-year history. President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the Equal Employment ...

By Dianne Anderson If not for a memo leaked just before Thanksgiving, the community would be in the dark about what’s around the corner, or to what degree it may violate their civil rights. Advocates are frustrated, saying they were not made aware of the hundreds of court cases now being transferred from Victorville Court ...

By Dianne Anderson Land grabs forced primarily African Americans out of their family homes through evictions and burnings in Palm Springs, but survivors of Section 14 are seeing some consolation with a unanimous city council vote for direct cash payments in a $5.9 million settlement. That reparation will be split among verified Section 14 descendants ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent With the Trump administration preparing to take office in January, plans across numerous policy areas are likely to significantly affect Black Americans. From proposed changes to education funding to civil rights enforcement, early indicators suggest a series of shifts that could reshape access to resources, legal ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent The 2024 presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump has underscored a profound clash on race and justice. Trump, the twice impeached Republican nominee who next month faces sentencing in New York for 34 felony convictions, has called for greater police ...