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  • Women’s March on Washington: Speaking on Many Issues With 1 Voice

    Organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, set for Saturday, Jan. 21, are gearing up for what they hope will be the largest mass mobilization ever on the first full day of a new presidential administration. It is set for one day after the swearing-in of President-elect Donald Trump. “You can’t ignore a grassroots group…

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  • Hair-Care Pioneer Miko Branch Is Teaching Millennials Do’s and Don’ts of Running Business

    Miko Branch, co-founder and CEO of the multimillion-dollar Miss Jessie’s natural-hair-care line, is hoping the tale of her success will inspire others who might want to follow in her footsteps. “It’s more like the cherries on top, to be able to stand in my shoes and know where I came from, and know I had…

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  • Trump Claims He’ll Rebuild the Inner Cities, but How Committed Is He?

    President-elect Donald Trump, in the first version of his 100-day action plan to make America great again, promised to spend $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. He said that the plan would involve leveraging public-private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives, adding that the program would be revenue-neutral. A few days later…

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  • Could More School Choice Equal More Problems in Education Under Trump?

    President-elect Donald Trump has been very clear about his plans for education reform under his administration. He plans to reprioritize federal dollars for an additional federal investment of $20 billion toward school choice. This, he says, will give states the option of funding students’ education at the public or private school of their choice. It…

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  • Obama Has Set a Record for Commuting Sentences, but Advocates Push for More Before Trump Takes Office

    President Barack Obama granted another round of commutations and pardons Monday, commuting the sentences of 153 people and pardoning 78 others. Among them is Kendrick Tyshawn Akins of Coppell, Texas, who was sentenced to life for conspiracy to manufacture, distribute or possess cocaine, cocaine base or marijuana. Obama commuted his sentence to 240 months of…

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  • Trump Has Threatened to Roll Back US Ties With Cuba, but Will He?

    Marla Recio Carbajal got her master’s degree in international business this year from the University of California, San Diego. But now she’s the founder and president of Havana Reverie, an upscale event-planning firm that caters to Americans visiting Cuba for everything from corporate events to weddings. She traveled from Havana to Washington, D.C., last week…

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  • Canaries in a Coal Mine: Black Communities Could Suffer Under Trump’s Energy and Climate Policies

    President-elect Donald Trump dropped a lump of coal into the stockings of environmentalists with his nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The selection of Pruitt, who joined a coalition of state attorneys general in suing the agency he’s been nominated to lead over its Clean Power Plan, and…

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  • As GOP Plans to Repeal Obamacare, It’s Unclear What’s Next for Millions Who Need It

    Senate Republican leaders say they’ll move immediately to start repealing the Affordable Care Act, often known as  Obamacare, next month. But they don’t yet have a clear plan to replace the 2010 law the Obama administration billed as “comprehensive health insurance reforms that put consumers back in charge of their health care.” President-elect Donald Trump…

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  • What Exactly Will Policing Look Like for Blacks Under the ‘Law and Order’ President?

    A South Carolina judge on Monday declared a mistrial in the murder trial of a white South Carolina police officer after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Now-former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager was accused of shooting unarmed African-American motorist Walter Scott in the back five times as Scott fled after a…

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  • For Muslims in Trump’s America, There’s More to Fear Than Just the Proposed Ban

    Over the past week, several mosques in California, Rhode Island, South Florida and Georgia have received a hateful letter praising President-elect Donald Trump and urging an ethnic cleanse of Muslims in the United States. “There’s a new sheriff in town—President Donald Trump,” the letter reads in part. “He’s going to do with you Muslims what…

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