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By BlackPressUSA Newswire The Trump administration has shelved the decade-long effort to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill— while simultaneously pushing to putTrump’s face on a brand-new $250 bill. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Monday (July 6) that the Trump administration is “not at present” planning to move forward with placing Tubman’s likeness on…

LA Tourism News LOS ANGELES, CA [July 14, 2026] – Following a landmark summer that brought the world to Los Angeles and another banner year of recognition from the James Beard Foundation and the MICHELIN Guide, today, Los Angeles Tourism announces the return of Summer Dine LA Restaurant Week, taking place Friday, August 14 through…

 MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN REPORTER — A recent on-court incident between Alyssa Thomas and Caitlin Clark led to a Flagrant 2 foul and a one-game suspension for Thomas, sparking widespread reaction online. A Black journalist noted a pattern of weaponizing such incidents to spread racism and attack Black women and the WNBA. Following the incident, Thomas and…

By Ashley Craig, Navy Office of Community Outreach NORFOLK, Va. – Petty Officer 3rd Class Franklin Dendeng, a native of San Bernardino, California, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to USS Harry S. Truman, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operating out of Norfolk, Virginia. Dendeng graduated from San Bernardino High School in 2023. The skills and…

By Araceli Martinez OXNARD, Calif. – It was a year ago this month that Javier’s life changed instantly. The 41-year-old had been working at Glass House Farms along California’s Central Coast when federal immigration agents conducted what was then the largest enforcement operation in the state’s history. Five days after being detained Javier was deported…

By Wanda Haynes Certified-Sommelier There is an exciting Italian dry white wine to try this summer and all year long.Grillo means “cricket” in Italian translation. Italian fairytales refer to Cavallo delleFate as “fairy horse” since crickets are said to ride fairies on their backs. This ischarming and add lore to an already amazing dry assessable…

ZAIDEE STAVELY California’s audacious goal of having half of all K-12 students enrolled in bilingual education programs by 2030 has encountered one big stumbling block — there aren’t enough qualified bilingual teachers. To help remedy that, a $10 million grant tucked in the state budget aims to help school districts recruit high school students as…

By Crusader Staff For nearly four decades, millions of Americans welcomed Tony Brown into their homes each week. But Brown was never interested in simply hosting another television program. He wanted to transform the way Black America saw itself—and the way the nation saw Black America. Brown, the pioneering journalist, broadcaster, educator and civil rights…

By BlackPressUSA Newswire DETROIT – Words from Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp by the golden door,” seem to have been etched from the…

By BlackPressUSA Newswire Black midwives are going beyond the limits of conventional care to help communities confront the maternal healthcare crisis. The persistent U.S. maternal healthcare crisis is increasingly putting midwives in the spotlight as being part of the all-hands-on-deck approach to reducing the number of women having pregnancy related complications that too often include…

By Wanda Haynes Certified-Sommelier Vegans avoid all meat, dairy, eggs, wool, feathers, leather, fur, honey, seafood, fish, and animal-derived materials. This includes products tested on animals, and places that use animals for entertainment. The wine they drink must foster their diet and beliefs. The term “fining” is a process of adding substances to rid the…

By BlackPressUSA Newswire For generations, environmental justice in Black America has been measured in asthma rates, cancer diagnoses and poisoned drinking water. Scientists now say another consequence may be emerging: chemicals and microscopic plastics omnipresent in everyday life could be harming Black men’s fertility. GreenLiving & Environmental Issues Researchers have found that Black men tend…

Kern County built its healthcare system on foreign medical talent. What happens if the international pipeline breaks? This story was produced for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s Ethnic Media Collaborative. By Cecil Egbele “Kern County chose me,” said Dr. Ololade Oladimeji. “I did not exactly choose Kern County.” Known as Dr. Lola, Oladimeji is…

BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES California is modifying how it pays for preschool by moving the entire California State Preschool Program under the same constitutional funding guarantee that supports students in transitional kindergarten through community college. It might appear to be a simple shift from one funding bucket to another. But some education advocates say the decision…

By Rhonda L. Randall, D.O., Chief Medical Officer at UnitedHealthcare, Employer & Individual As families prepare for the upcoming school year, many are focused on school supplies, schedules and getting back into routines. But one of the most important back-to-school steps happens before the first day of class: scheduling a well-child visit. Because many pediatric…

By Jongwon Lee GAINESVILLE, Ga. — After months of opposition from residents, local officials and congressional delegates, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has abandoned plans to convert two Northeast Georgia warehouses into immigration detention facilities. DHS announced June 18 that it would withdraw from plans to convert warehouses in the small cities Oakwood and…

By BlackPressNewswire Long before Black Americans held political power, built economic influence, or could count on equal protection under the law, we had something untouchable. We had our music. Before we owned radio stations, record labels, or corporate boardrooms, we had music. Before our stories made it into mainstream history books, they lived in our…

Gov. Newsom Swears in Tomiquia Moss as Head of California Housing and Homelessness Agency Bo Tefu and Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media  Gov. Gavin Newsom has sworn in Tomiquia Moss as secretary of the newly established California Housing and Homelessness Agency, placing a longtime housing official at the helm of California’s efforts to…

Public  asked  to  reach  out  to  bi-partisan  members  of  Congress By Hazel Trice Edney UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is asking the public for help to pass historic multi-million dollar legislation that would undergird infrastructure projects at HBCUs across the nation. The IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act, which already has significant support from bi-partisan members of…

Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media  In August 2000, the California Legislature confronted a little-known chapter of American history after records uncovered in the state archives revealed that, before the Civil War, some insurance companies issued policies to slaveholders that insured enslaved people against injury, death or escape, treating human beings as property. That…