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African Americans
Stefi Mar

Black Americans Cannot Afford the Trump Administration’s Health Care Cost Spike

This Saturday marks one month of the federal government shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers—nearly 20% of whom are Black and 30% of whom are veterans—are missing their second paycheck. Families across the country will be forced to choose between paying for groceries, rent and medical care. President Trump and his allies in Congress are inflicting this pain because they would rather shut down the government than deal with the looming health care crisis that will explode costs for more than 170 million Americans.

Stefi Mar November 4, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

25 States Suing Trump USDA for Gutting Food Aid to 40 million Americans

Twenty-five attorneys general across the country and three governors have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Secretary, Brooke Rollins, after the agency moved to suspend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP, which helps more than 40 million Americans buy food each month.

Stefi Mar November 4, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

With 200 Supporters in Norfolk Outside, NY Attorney General Letitia James Pleads Not Guilty

“Fear is the tool that people use when they don’t really stand for anything. That is what they use,” said LaTosha Brown, the founder of Black Voters Matter, to a crowd of supporters outside a courthouse in Virginia in support of New York Attorney General Letitia James. After being indicted on “mortgage fraud” on Oct. 9, by a Trump Administration Department of Justice that has seen an endless carousel of sudden firings, replacements, and drama, James is defiant. Many legal observers predict that the charges against her will be dismissed.

Stefi Mar October 27, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Virginia Democrats Enter the War on Maps After GOP Moves to Kill Black Political Power

“Democrats are going to take back control of the United States House of Representatives. It’s the reason why we see Republicans in full-blown panic right now,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to reporters on Capitol Hill on Oct. 22. Democrats have been strategizing on redistricting strategy with leaders in Democratic states since Republicans in Texas. “We’ve never seen this level of extraordinary gerrymandering attempts take place across the country.

Stefi Mar October 27, 2025
Arts & Culture
Stefi Mar

From Boston to Paris, Art Keeps Disappearing into the Dark

It was just after dawn in Paris when the sirens began to wail through the narrow streets surrounding the Louvre. Soldiers with rifles guarded the courtyard, tourists were turned away, and the great glass pyramid stood silent under a gray sky. Inside, the world’s most visited museum had been stripped of eight priceless jewels once belonging to Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie.

Stefi Mar October 27, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Trump’s “Beautiful Black Women” Lie and the Complicity That Betrays Us

Donald Trump’s claim that “beautiful Black women” were begging him to come to Chicago was not flattery. It was a lie that weaponized race and gender to mask a long record of cruelty and contempt. It was a performance designed to seduce the uninformed and comfort those willing to excuse his open assault on the people he pretends to praise.

Stefi Mar October 20, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

The Lie About Immigrants and America’s Debt to Them 

There is a lie moving through America. It creeps through congressional halls and across television screens, whispering that undocumented immigrants live freely off the sweat of the American taxpayer. It is a lie told by those who know better and repeated by those who are too ignorant—or too hateful—to care. And while the lie spreads, the truth is being brutalized on the streets.

Stefi Mar October 20, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Report Warns about Shifting Racial Job Trends Across the Nation

A new report from the Brookings Institution warns that the nation’s job market may be entering a period of instability that could worsen racial and economic disparities. While the overall unemployment rate held steady between June 2024 and June 2025, joblessness among Black workers rose by more than half a percent.

Stefi Mar October 20, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Trump’s War on America Ramps up with Vow Not to Pay Federal Workers

The White House has continued to wage war against the American people — not through bombs or foreign troops, but through policies that strip workers of their dignity, their pay, and their hope. The cruelty is no accident. It is deliberate, orchestrated, and flaunted as a spectacle of power. America’s government has turned its might inward, and its victims are the citizens who once believed they were free.

Stefi Mar October 13, 2025
African Americans
Stefi Mar

Democrats Tout State Races, but Party of Diversity Still Refuses to Invest in Black Media  

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) announced ten key state legislative races to watch this November, touting the contests as pivotal for maintaining and expanding Democratic power in states such as Virginia, New Jersey, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Washington. Yet, even as the DLCC calls attention to its candidates and their communities, the party’s silence and neglect toward Black-owned media — particularly the historic Black Press of America — continues to speak louder than its press releases.

Stefi Mar October 13, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Trump Turns the Military Inward, and America Confronts Its Oldest Fear

The Posse Comitatus Act was born in 1878. It was short, a single sentence, but it carried a promise: soldiers would not patrol American streets. Its origin was poisoned by the retreat from Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, but its meaning grew larger. It became a vow that liberty cannot live where rifles enforce the law of civilians.

Stefi Mar October 7, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Republicans Shutdown Government

Democrats and Republicans are both pointing fingers, saying the shutdown is the other party’s fault. The government shutdown means that money has stopped flowing, and there is no continuing resolution to continue the funding for the government. Republicans are in charge of the House, Senate, and White House and do not want to open borders or focus on healthcare to expand the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Stefi Mar October 7, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Democrats Dig In: Healthcare at the Center of Looming Shutdown Fight

The air in Washington has grown thick with a familiar tension, the kind that precedes the shuttering of government offices and the silencing of paychecks for thousands of workers. Yet at the heart of this looming shutdown lies something far greater than partisan brinkmanship: a ferocious fight for the soul of America’s healthcare.

Stefi Mar September 30, 2025
Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Resolution Honoring Charlie Kirk Becomes Critical Test for the Black Caucus

“This is the worst I’ve felt about this country in years,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, standing on the House steps and talking about the state of play in the U.S.  “I can’t imagine anyone voting against this resolution,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as members of the House, led by Republicans Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, considered a resolution to honor Charlie Kirk. Kirk was murdered on September 10 during an outdoor appearance at Utah Valley University.

Stefi Mar September 23, 2025
African Americans
Stefi Mar

Acquitted Black Doctor Stands Tall Against Malicious Injustice: Canada’s Bias Revealed

For more than five years, Dr. Olumuyiwa Bamgbade carried the weight of lies that he should never have borne. He is a Black doctor, a healer by training, acquitted of false accusations that Canadian authorities and media were eager to trumpet but too arrogant, too complicit, to retract. The silence after his vindication was louder than the slander that preceded it. The cruelty is not simply in the malicious lies about him, but in the determination of a system to criminalize his very existence.

Stefi Mar September 23, 2025