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Stacy M. Brown,
By 8:30 p.m. on election night, the story was unmistakable. America had spoken, not with a whisper but with a roar that swept from Richmond to Atlanta, from Newark to New York City. The message was clear.By 8:30 p.m. on election night, the story was unmistakable.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
VINO & VERSE this Monday!
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Hosted by Silvia Kofler of Thorny Locust Press Monday, NOVEMBER 107-9pm @ the newly restored Warwick Theatre3927 Main Street, KCMO 64111
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Wyandotte County Gears up for Mayor Garner’s Final Christmas Tree Lighting Festival
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After four years of leading the city’s cherished holiday tradition, Mayor c, along with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS ( UG) and the KCK Downtown Shareholders will host Mayor Garner’s final Christmas Tree Lighting Festival on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, from 4 to 7 p.m.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
The 1st AACTA Awards were presented at the Sydney Opera House on 31 January 2012. The ceremony was preceded by a luncheon at the Westin Hotel in Sydney on 15 January 2012 (Wikimedia Commons / Photo by Eva Rinaldi)
MacKenzie Scott: A Philanthropy of the Spirit in an Age of Abandonment
Stacy M. Brown,
There are moments in history when a single act of generosity reveals the moral decay of an entire nation. MacKenzie Scott’s $ 38 million gift to Alabama State University, the largest in its 158-year history, is such a moment.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Governor Kelly Sues Trump Administration for Illegally Suspending SNAP Benefits
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Coalition Urges Court to Immediately Restore SNAP Funding Relied Upon by 42 Million AmericansGovernor Laura Kelly on Tuesday joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general and two governors in filing a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Secretary Brooke Rollins for...
Thursday, October 30, 2025
The Silence of Black Wealth: When the Billionaires Turned Their Backs on the Black Press
Stacy M. Brown,
He hoped they would remember that the Black Press was not a charity case but a lifeline. Two months later, the silence has been deafening.Two months ago, famed civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump stood before a ballroom filled with the echoes of history. He did not whisper. He thundered.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Men exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kan. The prison population in Kansas rose nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023 (John Moore/Getty Images)
US Prison Population Rises for Second Straight Year
Amanda Watford,
StatelineThe nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Pardoned Jan 6 Trump Supporter Arrested in New York for Death Threat on Leader Hakeem Jeffries
Lauren Burke,
Black Press USA“Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC. I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” a man named Christopher Moynihan allegedly wrote in text messages regarding House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, according to law enforcement authorities in Dutchess County, New York.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Stephen A. Smith at a Q&A at The Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin ( Wikimedia Commons / Photo by Moody College of Communication)
A Mouth for White Power: Stephen A. Smith’s Attack on Jasmine Crockett and the Black Resistance
Stacy M. Brown,
Black Press USA Senior National CorrespondentStephen A. Smith has once again aimed at the very people whose shoulders he stands upon.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Trump Bulldozes Through the White House
April Ryan,
Black Press USA Washington D.C.Bureau ChiefPresident Trump is unnerved that people in the Treasury Building across from the East Wing of the White House have been taking pictures of the demolition project for his 90,000 ft. ² ballroom. The optics (https:// www. instagram. com/ reel/ DQDTf2ElX-w/?
Friday, October 24, 2025