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  • Juneteenth and President Trump

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Juneteenth is a day for African Americans in this nation to connect to their ancestry. It honors the end of slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. The primary focus is freedom and the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.

  • The Constitution and Immigration Chaos

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The most recent chaos surrounds aggressive ice raids on Mexicans, Brazilians, and others who are said to be illegal in this nation by overstaying a visa or being undocumented.

  • OP-ED: Joy as Resistance: Reclaiming Juneteenth in a Time of Backlash

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Juneteenth, America’s newest federal holiday, was meant to symbolize a national reckoning with history and a celebration of freedom when President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan legislation into law in 2021.

  • PRESS ROOM: Clyburn on 10th Anniversary of Mother Emanuel AME Church Shooting in Charleston

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06) released the following video on X, paying tribute to the 10th anniversary of the shooting that took place at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015.

  • Black Press, Shoppers Turn Up Heat on Target

    BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Placer.ai’s latest analytics confirm that Target is losing ground to competitors like Walmart and Costco, who have posted gains during the same period.

  • What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth?

    The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestled with what to make of the holiday. What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? Should holiday observers The post What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? appeared first on Rolling Out.

Born Here, Belong Here: The Price and Power of Birthright Citizenship in Black America

To be born in America and know you belong, that’s something many people never have to question. But for Black Americans, that certainty was never handed over. It had to be wrestled from a country that once insisted they had no rights at all. The promise of belonging, secured by birthright citizenship in the 14th

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Resistance and Responsibility: A Constitutional Reflection on Black America, the Right to Resist, and January 6th

The Ongoing Struggle: Black Gen X’ers and the Persistent Impediments to Racial Equality

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