Category: African Americans

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Cuba’s Top Diplomat to U.S.: Blockade Hurts Black Americans and Cubans Alike

Cuba’s Deputy Director of U.S. Affairs Johana Tablada offered a sobering but impassioned critique of current U.S. policy toward Cuba during an exclusive interview in Washington, D.C., where she called on Americans—especially African Americans—to pay closer attention to the consequences of decades-long sanctions and misinformation.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Commentary: Black Leaders Are Standing with Immigrant Communities — Even If Media Coverage Doesn’t Show It 


Last week, when Pres. Donald Trump sent federal troops into Los Angeles and escalated ICE raids across Southern California, Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood) didn’t stay silent. As chair of the Los Angeles County Legislative Delegation, she led more than 30 lawmakers in a Capitol press conference denouncing what she called “unconstitutional actions.”

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Trump Administration’s DEI Rollback Leaves Black Women in Federal Jobs Vulnerable

A sweeping rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under the Trump administration has left Black women disproportionately affected, according to an investigation by ProPublica. The nonprofit newsroom found that the administration’s broad executive actions to dismantle DEI programs have upended the careers of many long-serving civil servants, despite their jobs having no direct connection to diversity initiatives.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

‘We’re Not Going Back’ Black Churches Confront Target

On the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant led a national prayer protest targeting Target’s rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Dozens of churches joined in what Bryant called a “spiritual act of uprising,” staging nine-minute and 40-second demonstrations outside Target stores in honor of the time Floyd was pinned to the ground by police.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Reparations

“The President doesn’t have a public position on the issue,” said a senior White House Official, regarding the most recent debate on reparations or a reparations study. The question arises as Maryland’s latest controversy over reparations versus a reparations study continues. Governor Wes Moore has vetoed any bill that proposes studying reparations in the state.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Five Years after George Floyd, Racial Justice Hopes Fade

As the nation approaches the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, a new Pew Research Center study reveals a sobering assessment from Americans: the heightened focus on race and racial inequality following the 2020 protests has largely failed to improve the lives of Black people.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

The DEI Deception: White Women Benefit, Black Americans Blamed

While President Donald Trump and his allies at the Heritage Foundation work to gut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across America, a dangerous narrative continues to spread—that DEI is some handout to Black Americans.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Rev. Dr. Melva Sampson: ‘Healing Must Happen Beyond the Struggle’

Rev. Dr. Melva L. Sampson didn’t inherit a pulpit—she created one. The ordained minister and professor of preaching and practical theology at Wake Forest University has emerged as a leading voice for Black spiritual innovation, communal healing, and radical reimagining of faith—outside of the systems that have long tried to silence people like her.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Let It Be Known: “They Voted to Deport Us”

The May 1 edition of Let It Be Known began with a pair of videos featuring journalist Charles Blow and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who delivered searing critiques of a House Judiciary Committee vote that, as Crockett described it, gives former President Donald Trump the power to deport U.S. citizens. Crockett, visibly outraged, revealed the shocking development during a live markup session, warning that constitutional protections are being gutted in real time.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Civil Rights Groups to White House: ‘We Won’t Back Down’

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has launched “The Pact: A Civil Rights Coalition Unity Commitment,” a declaration of mutual support among dozens of major nonprofit organizations representing millions of people nationwide. The coalition said it’s responding directly to escalating threats and retaliatory actions by the White House and federal agencies targeting groups engaged in public service, advocacy, and civil rights work.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Historic Black Sites Under Threat, May 3 Mobilization Set

Reverend Shavon Arline-Bradley, president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), is mobilizing a national response to what she called a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to erase Black history and dismantle long-standing institutions.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Young Americans Losing Faith in the System

A new national survey from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School finds young Americans facing financial uncertainty, deteriorating mental health, and a growing lack of trust in institutions. The 50th edition of the Harvard Youth Poll offers a comprehensive look at the attitudes of Americans aged 18 to 29—particularly young Black individuals—who feel increasingly left out of national conversations and underserved by political leadership.