Residents in Jackson, Mississippi, a city that is roughly 82% Black, have been grappling with an ongoing water crisis — a public health crisis caused by infrastructure neglect, severe weather, and a deteriorating water system — since the near-collapse of its water treatment plant in 2022. This month, the U.S. court […]
In the latest front of Trump’s cultural war, the Treasury Department announced new rules that would revoke the tax-exempt status for schools that render any type of aid or favor to Black or “minority” students, including in admissions policies, scholarships, loans, or other programs marked […]
Howard University is making some big moves and raising even bigger questions. Shortly after the university shocked hundreds of students in an untimely disenrollment debacle, it seems the HBCU is now offering incentives for hundreds of faculty and staff to make an early exit. The sudden transition […]
In news that can only be described as wild, weird, and deeply upsetting, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to provide agents with gloves that emit electric shocks to subdue individuals they’re targeting. AP reports that a notice published by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday […]
The Trump administration’s attacks on the poor and unhoused continued last week after it announced that they cut federal funds from a Los Angeles homelessness agency. The New York Times reports that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sent a letter to the Los Angeles Homeless […]
Reparations *Ghana is preparing to bring one of the world’s most consequential unresolved debates to the United Nations General Assembly. According to The Daily Post, the country plans to submit a resolution formally recognizing the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime in the history of humankind,” and […]
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