California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) abrupt and unlawful rescission of prior agency actions that preserved states’ access to hundreds of millions of dollars in funding currently being used by school districts to support the academic recovery of students following the COVID-19 pandemic. Attorney General Bonta ...

By Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA Sr Natl Correspondent   Tens of thousands of people in the United States and around the world are preparing to take to the streets on Saturday, April 5, in what organizers are calling the largest single day of protest since Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term. With ...

By Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA.com Sr Natl Correspondent   Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, issued a sharp rebuke of the current administration’s handling of sensitive national security matters following recent reports that high-level officials used encrypted messaging apps to discuss active military operations. “If what is reported is true, it certainly suggests they ...

The U.S. Department of Education has announced the closure of seven of its 12 regional Office for Civil Rights (OCR) branches, including the San Francisco office that handles California’s federal civil rights complaints. The decision is part of a broader restructuring effort that will cut nearly half the department’s workforce, placing about 1,300 employees on ...

By Antonio‌ ‌Ray‌ ‌Harvey‌ ‌California‌ ‌Black‌ ‌Media‌ During an online conference on Feb. 26, California Attorney General Rob Bonta detailed how the Trump Administration had used its first five and half weeks to execute an agenda that runs counter in various ways to California state policies and priorities. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has issued scores of executive ...

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 Stacy M Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent President Donald Trump has unveiled his American priorities, which include measures addressing border security, economic policies, government restructuring, and social values. While the policies aim to bolster what the administration calls “American values and safety,” they carry profound implications for Black Americans and other marginalized communities. ...

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Newswire I am no fan of Omarosa Manigault Newman, the mononymous diva who dominates the airwaves whenever she wants to. Her new book, “Unhinged,” which I won’t read, is billed as a tell-all on “45’s” White House and its shenanigans. In making the rounds, “Omierosie” (my nickname for her) has played ...

By Freddie Allen Editor-In-Chief, NNPA Newswire Las Vegas authorities have identified Stephen Paddock, a 64 year-old White man from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunmen in one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history. During a brief press conference Monday morning, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters that more than 50 people were ...