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A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., plans to introduce the Reparations Now Resolution on Thursday. Lee met with other lawmakers and activists . . .
I think of my late grandmother Lillian McCray quite often these days. She might have completed only a portion of ninth grade, but living in the segregated South gave her and other Black people of her generation — she was born in 1921 — an education in what Americans are capable of. She saw a […]
A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Penn., plans to introduce the Reparations Now Resolution on Thursday. Lee met with other lawmakers and activists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday at an event titled “Why We […]
The announcement from St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City set off waves of shock and pride across the United States: For the first time ever, the pope was an American. And a White Sox fan to boot. In more than two dozen interviews across the country, Catholics and non-Catholics alike said they were stunned by […]
Americans would suffer most if Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imports of pharmaceuticals, as medications would become more expensive and potentially unaffordable for some people, drugmakers have warned. Drugmakers have been braced for targeted border taxes – similar to the 25% levies on steel, aluminium and car imports – after the US president threatened to […]
The NAACP is challenging the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Department of Education of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies. In the lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, joined by the Legal Defense Fund, targets […]
Trump’s deportation proposal targeting U.S. citizens sparks fear among Black Americans and legal experts: President Donald Trump has reignited fierce national debate by floating a legally dubious idea: deporting U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to El Salvador. The controversial remarks, made during a high-profile meeting at the White House with El Salvador President Nayib […]
Image Credit: Maven Collaborative illustration This article is the second in a three-part series, Quiet Violence: How the Tax System Works Against Black Americans, co-produced by The Maven Collaborative and NPQ. This series explores how the taxation system’s “quiet violence” enacted against Black Americans leads not only to financial inequality but also to stolen legacies, […]
A new YouGov survey asked Americans about passport ownership, their experience renewing or applying for passports during periods of what the federal government describes as “unprecedented demand,” and the value they believe a U.S. passport has for its holders. The survey found that the groups most likely to hold a current U.S. passport include Hispanic […]
Andrew HardingReporting fromParis, FranceBBC Rick (left) covered up the US flag logo on his baseball cap before venturing out in Paris Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris’s Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise. But earlier that morning, on their very first trip […]