On Aug. 8, in a Sacramento County courtroom, Tajee Michael was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the shooting death of high school football coach Greg Najee Grimes.
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“California cannot sit back and let that happen. We have a responsibility to step up. We are going to step up,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Ladera Heights).
Donald Trump’s fixation on former President Barack Obama has long bordered on obsessive. Now, it’s official government policy. Trump’s Justice Department has launched a federal grand jury investigation targeting former Obama administration officials—an apparent political hit job tied to Trump’s long-standing false claims that Obama and his team “manufactured” the Russia investigation to sabotage his presidency.
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order requires colleges receiving federal aid to submit detailed admissions data — including race, GPA, test scores, and acceptance rates — to prove they aren’t using race, directly or indirectly, in admissions decisions. Noncompliance may trigger federal enforcement actions, including corrective plans, loss of federal student aid eligibility, and possible referral to the Department of Justice.
A decade after its acclaimed debut, the award-winning documentary Even Me returns with a powerful sequel, Even Me 2.0: Unfinished Business. Debuting on Prime, the new film revisits the lives of older African American women living with HIV, an often-overlooked group at the center of a crisis that still grips Black communities across the United States.
President Trump likes to say he is delivering for working people. He promised on the campaign trail that he would protect “Black jobs.” But like so many of his promises, it is an empty one. In fact, we have been living with the effects of Trump’s policies since he took office in January and the only thing he has delivered for us is employment uncertainty and financial insecurity. The July jobs report that came out last week is starting to reflect that.
As the U.S. House Rules Committee met recently to consider three Republican-backed bills targeting the District of Columbia’s local governance, and ahead of Donald Trump’s takeover of D.C., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) denounced the measures as “paternalistic” and undemocratic attacks on the will of more than 700,000 D.C. residents.
Fred Redmond, the highest-ranking African American in the history of the American labor movement, is sounding the alarm on what he calls a full-scale assault on Black workers under President Donald Trump’s second term.
While the world has been caught up in chaos—from political madness to climate extremes—Black celebrities reminded everyone that fashion is still a powerful form of expression. This summer, they didn’t just step out—they shut it down, turning sidewalks into runways and premieres into fashion clinics.
Donald Trump’s first eight months back in the White House have erased any illusion of restraint. He is not just following the Project 2025 playbook — the authoritarian blueprint he once claimed to know nothing about — he’s executing it with surgical precision. From purging diversity programs to steamrolling media independence, Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of white nationalist policymaking under the guise of federal power.
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The Washington Post, which has long defined itself as the “paper of record” alongside its competitive rivals, The New York Times, is now witnessing a major exodus of Black journalists. Though the U.S. is becoming more diverse, the Post isn’t.
If you want to create a perfect storm at Covered California and other Affordable Care Act marketplaces, all you have to do is make enrollment more time-consuming, ratchet up the toll on consumers’ pocketbooks, and terminate financial aid for some of the youngest and healthiest enrollees.
The U.S. economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, continuing a three-month trend of sluggish growth, according to the latest data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national unemployment rate held steady at 4.2 percent, with little movement across key sectors.
This May in North Carolina, New Hanover County’s first early childhood substitute teacher from a new centralized substitute pool worked a shift at The Learning Tree, a licensed childcare center in Wilmington. Marquita Williams has since filled in several times in different classrooms at the center, providing coverage for teachers who called out sick or needed time off from the taxing work of early care and education.
A new Harris Poll report reveals that while Americans overwhelmingly view skilled trades as essential to society, they also believe the field is undervalued, overlooked in schools, and facing a generational perception gap that could deepen the labor shortage crisis already gripping the nation.
State officials and community advocates in California are working to raise awareness about Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs), a legal tool that allows firearms to be temporarily removed from individuals who pose a risk to themselves or others. Although the law has been on the books since 2016, many Californians still don’t know these orders exist.
Following orders President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made in April, California recently lost over 5,600 AmeriCorps public service workers and over $60 million in funding.
Across the United States, drivers are spending more time stuck in traffic, navigating crumbling roads, and bracing for dangerous encounters with aggressive motorists. A trio of new reports paints a troubling picture: America’s roadways are jammed, its drivers are angry, and the impact is growing more severe in cities from coast to coast.
