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Houston Haitians Push Back Against TPS Terminations

Houston Haitians Push Back Against TPS Terminations

HOUSTON DEFENDER — Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals officially ended on July 27, affecting an estimated 350,000 Haitians nationwide by stripping their legal status...

April Ryan11 months ago

Donald Trump Is the Biggest Loser

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump Brand took a significant hit as it was swept up in the Democratic blue wave of the election last night.

George Edward Chalmer Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit Jr. in 1954 winning the Brown vs. Board of Education case, 1954. Photo: New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection at LOC.

Black History2 years ago

COMMENTARY: Brown vs. Board, 70 years Later

CINCINNATI HERALD — The law is subject to interpretation. Interpretation of the law lays on the altar of perspective. For example, the recalcitrant White culture encoded...

Plaintiffs, including the NAACP, ACLU, Shalela Dowdy and Evan Milligan, had filed suit to challenge a new congressional district map drawn by Republicans in the Alabama Legislature which they said violated the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

Barrington Salmon3 years ago

Blacks in Alabama Gain Congressional Seat After Lawsuit Prompts Redrawn Map

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Alabama’s defiance is striking and nearly unprecedented in this country’s history. A recent report offers important color and context,” said Alex Aronson, a...

“Obstetric racism represents the cause for the racial disparities in Black maternal health. It has been declared by most medical bodies. It’s not one race driving these racial disparities. It’s more systemic for sure,” said Dr. Kevin Scott Smith, Department Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Alameda Health System.

Barrington Salmon3 years ago

The National Disgrace of Maternal Mortality

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The United States bears the worrying distinction as “deadliest nation” in the industrialized or “developed world” to be pregnant,” said Dr. Michele Bratcher...

Jack Brown “built an organization that has sought to routinely innovate and create new models for delivering its services in a challenging environment – so much so that New York City’s DHS has clearly come to depend on CORE through the years,” said said Dr. Wilmer Leon, III.

Barrington Salmon5 years ago

CORE Services in Search of Fairness

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Among the claims made by the de Blasio administration — and, in particular, the New York Department of Homeless Services — is that...

National12 years ago

Ginsburg Expects to Remain on Supreme Court ‘for a While’

(Politico) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg signaled in an interview broadcast Wednesday that she has no plans to resign in the near future and...

Politics12 years ago

Supreme Court Hits New Low: Only 30% Have Confidence in Justices

(USA Today) – We know Americans don’t have much confidence in Congress or President Obama, but it turns out the Supreme Court is also slipping in the...

Politics12 years ago

Supreme Court Sides with Christian College in Birth Control Case

(The Washington Post) – The three female justices of the Supreme Court sharply rebuked their colleagues Thursday for siding with a Christian college in the...

Politics12 years ago

For These Supreme Court Justices, Unanimous Doesn’t Mean Unity

(The Washington Post) – Supreme Court experts have been looking for the right word to describe the term’s record number of agree-not-to-disagree unanimous decisions: Faux-nimity? Un-unanimous? The number of...

Politics12 years ago

Rights Groups Call for Congress to Act on the Voting

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – One year after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act...