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Government shutdown delays release of critically important inflation figures

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Ecoomics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report, leaving policymakers at the Federal Reserve with...

House Republicans Getting Paid on Recess, Government Employees Are Not

By: Dr. John E. Warren, PublisherSan Diego Voice & Viewpoint NewspaperChairman of the Board of Directors, NNPA The latest move of distraction on the part...

Obama Fills the Void in a Fading Democratic Party

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Former President Barack Obama has stepped back into the political arena, delivering some of his sharpest critiques yet of President Donald Trump as the Democratic Party struggles through one of its weakest moments in modern history.

IN MEMORIAM: Former Detroit Congresswoman and CBC Chair Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Dies at 80

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Carolyn Jean Cheeks Kilpatrick, an assertive advocate for Detroit and Black owned business, died on October 7 in Atlanta. She was...

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

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — 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.

After Plunge, Black Students Enroll in Harvard

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Black student enrollment at Harvard Law School has rebounded. The incoming J.D. Class of 2028 includes...

Most of the Congressional Black Caucus Votes Against Honoring Charlie Kirk

By Lauren Burke Members of the Congressional Black Caucus were split on the question of whether Charlie Kirk, a rightwing commentator with controversial views on...

2 Black men wrongly accused in 1989 killing of white woman in Boston get $150K from city

BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — Two Black men wrongly accused of killing a pregnant white woman in a high-profile case in Boston in 1989 have...