![Job Cuts, Climate Threats, and the Power of Now: Black Mayors Seek Strength in Solidarity]()
by Jordan Owens | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Black mayors from across the country gathered in the nation’s capital for the annual African American Mayors Association Conference last week and strategized ways to govern their cities despite ongoing federal job cuts and recent actions coming from the...
by Matthew Shea | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled the start of a major reorganization on Tuesday to drastically reduce the size and scope of the State Department. The plan reflected the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to cut back the federal government. The...
by Erin Drumm | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Paul Osadebe still holds his job as a lawyer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Still, with so many of his coworkers having lost their jobs, he says it is endangering the mission of providing housing and revitalizing...
by Ismael M. Belkoura | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – At a time when the Department of Veterans Affairs has been processing record levels of disability claims, Democrats warned last week that the agency’s productivity will not last under the deep cuts ordered by President Donald Trump. The 2022 PACT Act...
by Khaleel Rahman | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON, April 16 — As the death toll continues to mount in Sudan, the Trump administration on Wednesday for the first time characterized the atrocities in that North African country as genocide, reaffirming a designation made by the former Biden...
by Amalia Huot-Marchand | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON D.C. – As the first European leader to visit the White House since Trump imposed sweeping tariffs, Giorgia Meloni, on Thursday, attempted to balance Italy’s interests, European interests and her relationship with Trump, who welcomed her warmly. “There will...
