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Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office

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Published: October 4, 2025 11:00

Devon Price, a 15-year-old boy with autism, has attended the largest school district in North Carolina for 10 years, but he cannot read or write. His twin sister, Danielle, who is also autistic, was bullied by classmates and became suicidal. Under federal…

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Sentenced to 50 Months in Federal Prison

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Published: October 3, 2025 21:49

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced Friday to 50 months in federal jail following his conviction on prostitution charges. Combs, who turned a career as a music producer into a portfolio of businesses worth a billion dollars, was convicted on…

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations

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Published: October 3, 2025 15:00

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.   African leaders recently took the global stage at the U.N.’s General…

Jackson State Alumni Say Leadership Instability Is Costing the School Its Future

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Published: October 2, 2025 12:30

For the fourth time in less than a decade, Jackson State University is searching for its next university president — and its alumni are calling for more transparency in the search process. The university’s presidents are picked by the Institutions of…

Hazing Death Prompts Soul-Searching for Divine Nine

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Published: October 1, 2025 18:30

The calls, texts and emails have been pouring in. Since news broke in late February that a 20-year-old student at Southern University died in what police called “a fraternity hazing incident,” messages and voicemails continue to fill the inbox of filmmaker…

Georgia’s Highest Court Sides With Sapelo Island Residents to Put Land Battle on Ballot

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Published: October 1, 2025 18:15

In a win for Black landowners, Georgia’s highest court unanimously sided with Gullah Geechee communities in a long-standing zoning battle on Sapelo Island. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that had stopped a referendum to…

An Explosion Left a Black Town Contaminated. Politics Are Stunting the Cleanup.

https://capitalbnews.org/roseland-louisiana-oil-explosion-cleanup/

Published: October 1, 2025 11:00

On the banks of the Tangipahoa River in South Louisiana, thick oil slicks and chemical odors ripple across the water. Five weeks after an oil and lubricant facility exploded, sending oily soot as far as 40 miles away, Black residents still complain that…

USDA Pulls Plug on Report That Measured Who Goes Hungry in America

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Published: September 30, 2025 13:30

After three decades of tracking food insecurity, understanding the reality of Americans without access to reliable food may become more difficult due to the discontinuation of a federal survey. The Household Food Security Report is an annual, national…

Shutdown Threatens Jobs, Services for Black Communities Nationwide

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Published: September 30, 2025 11:00

The U.S. is once again barreling toward a federal government shutdown. A shutdown would disproportionately burden Black Americans, who are overrepresented among federal workers and would be especially hard hit by furloughs and diminished services. The…

Calls for ‘New Blood’ Grow at Congressional Black Caucus Gathering

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Published: September 29, 2025 17:20

WASHINGTON — Twenty-two-year-old Dequavius Pitts was excited to be at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. The recent Georgia Southern University graduate is interning in the city, and curious to see…

The Black Women Driving a Food Revolution in Rural Mississippi

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Published: September 29, 2025 14:30

Sowing Resilience: Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Schoolchildren, seniors, grocers and even farmers face a food crisis compounded by government cuts and soaring costs. These nine stories reveal how communities are…

Black Students Confront Right-Wing Visitors as HBCU Security Tensions Grow

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Published: September 26, 2025 18:09

It took less than 30 minutes for white men with signs that read “Deport All Illegals Now” and “DEI Should Be Illegal” to know they weren’t welcome on Tennessee State University’s campus.  The conservative group was quickly escorted off campus by law…

Black Professors on Turning Point’s Watch List Face Harassment On and Off Campus

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Published: September 26, 2025 12:00

As the news spread of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination two weeks ago, a student in Professor A.D. Carson’s “Black Voice” class made sure the room door was locked.  The University of Virginia professor had told them in passing that he was on…

Black Students, Workers Hit in Trump’s Speech Crackdown

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Published: September 23, 2025 16:00

A Black student was expelled from Texas Tech University. Another was disenrolled from Texas State University. A Black fire chief in Cleveland, Ohio, was placed on paid leave. In the days since the killing of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, numerous…

In This Black Louisiana Town, Forests are Browning and Animals are Dying

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Published: September 22, 2025 12:00

The forests that once sheltered the small town of Roseland are turning brown. A month after a sprawling oil and lubricant facility exploded and rained down slick black droplets all over this predominantly Black town in rural Louisiana, the trees are sick.…

Chicago’s Black Immigrants Face New Wave of ICE Arrests and Uncertainty

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Published: September 19, 2025 19:00

CHICAGO — Olayemi Owoludun was still in high school when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. He was too young to vote, but not too young to feel its impact.  A “terrified” friend who was an immigrant fell off the grid months after Trump’s first…

Trump Shifts $435M to HBCUs As Other Minority-Serving Colleges Lose Funding

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Published: September 16, 2025 22:30

The Trump administration said it will redirect $435 million to historically Black colleges and universities and tribal campuses as it defunds grant programs for other minority students at other institutions. On Monday, the Department of Education also…

Black Student Found Hanging at Delta State. Police Say No Foul Play.

https://capitalbnews.org/trey-reed-delta-state-death/

Published: September 16, 2025 20:15

A Black college student who was found hanging from a tree on his school’s campus in Mississippi was not the victim of foul play law enforcement officials said, countering online speculation that he was the victim of a lynching. What happened to…

Fani Willis Responds to Being Removed From Trump RICO Case

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Published: September 16, 2025 17:00

When Capital B Atlanta spoke with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in August, she strongly objected to the criticism that her case against President Donald Trump for alleged election interference was expensive and unsuccessful. “That’s…

Pollution is Driving Climate Disasters And The Government Plans to Stop Tracking it.

https://capitalbnews.org/trump-epa-ends-pollution-tracking/

Published: September 16, 2025 11:00

Homes in Jefferson County, Texas, still bear the scars of Hurricane Harvey: black and blue tarps cling to rooftops. Families in historically Black neighborhoods navigate a slow, unequal recovery from the 2017 storm, and in 2022, the federal government…

A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man’s Organs — Until His Doctor Intervened

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Published: September 15, 2025 15:00

ST. LOUIS — Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room. “Get him off the table,” the doctor recalled telling the surgical…

Lil Nas X’s Legal Battle Sheds Light on Charge Stacking

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Published: September 15, 2025 11:30

Many were stunned when footage surfaced this summer that appeared to show Lil Nas X walking naked along Los Angeles’s Ventura Boulevard. It was shortly before 6 a.m., and he was rapping a verse from the song “Monster.” “So let me get this straight, wait,…

At South Florida’s Only HBCU, a Leadership Feud Ends in Court

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Published: September 12, 2025 21:42

A Florida judge has put an end to a monthlong controversy at South Florida’s only historically Black university, ruling a former board trustee is the institution’s next president. Florida Memorial University found itself in the news when Brandon K. Dumas,…