Category : Black Local News

“We Did It, Mommy” Rep. Terri Sewell Steers Cancer Screening Bill Through Congress

Rep. Terri Sewell carried the memory of her mother into Congress while pushing legislation designed to speed access to life saving cancer scans for millions of older Americans confronting some of the deadliest illnesses in medicine. The Nancy Gardn...

Curtains Opened and Closed for an Hour Before Tennessee Scrapped Tony Carruthers Execution

Tennessee prison staff spent more than an hour Thursday attempting to establish an intravenous line for death row inmate Tony Carruthers before state authorities abruptly halted the lethal injection and cleared witnesses from the chamber. Riverbend...

“Our Communities Are Not Pawns” As Mississippi Protest Engulfs Downtown Jackson

Mississippi’s latest redistricting confrontation spilled into downtown Jackson on Wednesday as demonstrators marched near the Capitol carrying signs, chanting through blocked intersections, and warning that proposed voting maps could weaken Black po...

Rep. Christian Menefee Champions 180 Day Election Deadline After Houston District Sat Empty

Congressman Christian Menefee moved this week to tighten special election deadlines after Texas’s 18th Congressional District spent nearly a year without a voting voice during hurricane threats, spending standoffs, and major decisions unfolding insi...

Houston Approves Crackdown Cleaning Up Dangerous Apartment Complexes Across the City

Houston moved this week toward a sweeping overhaul of rental housing enforcement after City Council approved a new inspection program designed to target deteriorating complexes and pressure landlords linked to repeated safety complaints. Municipal...

Senate Republicans Walk Away From Washington Without Passing $72 Billion Trump Immigration Measure

Republicans left Washington this week without approving a sprawling $72 billion immigration measure after Senate divisions stalled negotiations and pushed another major piece of President Donald Trump’s agenda beyond a key June deadline. The legisla...

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Rolls Back Biden Refrigerant Rules While Promising Lower Grocery Bills

Lee Zeldin moved this week to loosen refrigerant rules, arguing the rollback could lower grocery prices, ease financial strain on businesses, and protect hundreds of thousands of American jobs tied to cooling systems and food storage equipment. The...

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy Breaks With Earlier Votes as Senate Moves to Rein In Trump Iran Powers

Bill Cassidy helped push a Senate war powers measure forward this week, reopening one of Washington’s oldest constitutional standoffs over who decides when the United States enters armed conflict with Iran. The Louisiana Republican broke from sever...

Democratic Candidate David Jolly Wants Civil Rights Office Placed Inside Florida Governor’s Wing

David Jolly stepped deeper into Florida’s culture war terrain this week by proposing a new Office of Civil Rights directly inside the Governor’s Office, a move he says would place discrimination complaints and equality oversight closer to the center...

Rep. Terri Sewell Calls Supreme Court Voting Decision a Setback for Black Alabama

Terri Sewell stepped into another voting rights storm after a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling reopened fears that Alabama could again redraw congressional lines in ways that weaken Black voter influence across large sections of the state. Representin...

Tiyaun Leach, Missing Baltimore Man With Schizophrenia, Disappeared Without Warning and His Mother Has Not Stopped Looking Since

Lamonica Patton has spent the past 14 months moving across Baltimore looking for her missing son, Tiyaun J. Leach, stepping through hospital waiting rooms, homeless shelters, transit stations, and jail intake areas while hoping one unfamiliar corner...

Rep. Sam Graves and Rep. Rick Larsen Spearhead the Bipartisan $580 Billion BUILD America 250 Act

Capitol Hill is preparing for a major infrastructure vote as members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee move closer to reviewing a sweeping $580 billion measure aimed at rebuilding highways, rail lines, bridges, transit network...

J.B. Pritzker Just Brought Springfield’s $4 Billion Tax Request Back Down to Earth

J.B. Pritzker signaled that several progressive backed tax proposals are effectively dead before lawmakers leave Springfield next week, narrowing the path for Democrats who spent months pushing plans designed to generate billions in additional state...

Donald Trump Rolls Out 600 Generic Medications on TrumpRx as Americans Stretch Every Pharmacy Dollar

Trump stood beside rows of prescription bottles inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Monday while unveiling a major expansion of TrumpRx, the administration’s discount drug network that now includes more than 600 generic medicines comm...

Hartford Officer Joseph Magnano Fired After Black Man Steven “Stevie” Jones Was Shot 9 Times During Mental Health Episode

Blue Hills Avenue had already tightened into a dangerous standoff before Joseph Magnano pulled his cruiser to the curb on Feb. 27. Three Hartford patrol units drifted backward through traffic lanes, speaking softly to Steven “Stevie” Jones as the 55...