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Federal Layoffs Put Head Start, FAFSA, and Civil Rights Investigations at Risk

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Published: October 17, 2025 14:00

The U.S. Department of Education has begun laying off more than 450 employees — many of whom oversee special education and civil rights enforcement.  After the layoffs, a federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump…

Hollywood South Is Hurting: Georgia’s Film Industry Weathers a Brutal Downturn

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Published: October 16, 2025 14:00

Atlanta has long been the scene where Black creatives could thrive both behind and in front of the camera. Since the 1970s, when then-Gov. Jimmy Carter launched the Georgia Film Office, the opening of Tyler Perry studios and other large-scale production…

Black Louisianans Finally Got a Fair Map. It May Be Gone Soon.

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Published: October 15, 2025 18:30

WASHINGTON — Living in North Baton Rouge is like being on the wrong side of the tracks, Martha Davis said. There are potholes everywhere that make you feel as if you’re driving on a washboard, southeastern Louisiana residents are still reeling from the…

Cannabis Convictions Still Haunt Black Families. This Nonprofit Offers a Lifeline.

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Published: October 15, 2025 12:00

Sitting in a Virginia state prison cell, Bryan Reid would often slouch his shoulders, droop his chin, and pout his bottom lip — the posture of someone struggling to believe how his life had come to this. Before he was transferred in 2018 to Coffeewood…

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

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Published: October 14, 2025 19:22

This story was originally published on Dec. 27, 2023. Neo-soul trailblazer D’Angelo, whose music defined a generation, has died after a “prolonged and courageous battle with cancer,” according to his family. He was 51. Hip-hop DJ Premier mourned the singer…

Inside North Carolina A&T’s Homecoming: When Greensboro Turned Blue and Gold

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Published: October 14, 2025 14:30

Photos By Cameron Smith GREENSBORO, North Carolina – Historically Black colleges and universities’ homecoming season vibes just hit different — and it’s off to a memorable start.  From the fashion to the plethora of events, these annual homecomings can’t…

Incarcerated Texans Rebuild Their Lives Through This Rooftop Solar Program

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Published: October 14, 2025 11:00

HOUSTON — Leon Dillard gripped the solar panel tight, sweat stinging his eyes as he scaled the sun-baked roof for the first time. His adrenaline racing, he remembered making sure his harness was clipped not once, but twice. He’d never climbed up onto a…

North Carolina A&T’s ‘One Big Family Reunion’ During Homecoming Week

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Published: October 10, 2025 21:00

GREENSBORO, North Carolina — David Myles Robinson barely remembers his first homecoming as a 1-year-old, but he points out an old photograph of his father holding him near an escalator at a Sheraton Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina, in the late 1990s. …

A City-by-City Breakdown of Trump’s Immigration Raids and Troop Deployments

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Published: October 10, 2025 20:30

​​President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to deport undocumented immigrants and what he says is a crackdown on crime in mostly Democratic-led cities — which have some of the nation’s largest Black populations — is showing no signs of slowing. Yet on…

In LA, Olympic Dreams Lead to Nightmares for a Historic Black Community

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Published: October 9, 2025 12:00

Fre’Drisha Dixon can still recall the laughter that once spilled across the playground of the now-shuttered Clyde Woodworth Elementary School in Inglewood. Just as clearly, she can conjure up the loud banging of the bulldozers that plowed through the…

She Got 27 Years for Killing Her Abuser. Judge Rules Oklahoma’s Survivors Act Won’t Free Her.

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Published: October 8, 2025 18:59

No one disputes that Tyesha Long shot and killed her ex-boyfriend nearly five years ago.  But after spending almost three years in prison for manslaughter, Long’s hope to walk free under a new Oklahoma law meant to give domestic violence survivors a second…