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After more than two years, emergency funding for food stamp recipients through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has ended.
Members of Congress are up in arms with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for granting Fox News host Tucker Carlson access…
California congressman Rep. Robert Garcia honored Beyoncé during a speech commemorating Women's History Month.
Answering a question about whether she had been treated unfairly, Lightfoot replied: "I'm a Black woman in America. Of course."
A Tennessee lawmaker has apologized for suggesting the state use lynching as an execution method for its death row inmates.
The Biden-Harris administration’s latest asylum regulation could greatly impact Black migrants traveling to the U.S. to seek refuge.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis released his new book, which is largely seen as the soft launch of his presidential run in…
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters denied…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday to determine whether President Biden’s student loan debt relief program would prevail.
Philadelphia state Rep. Joanna McClinton on Tuesday became the first woman to serve as speaker of the Pennsylvania House, ascending…
Deaths while in custody go underreported, despite a 2014 law requiring state and federal agencies to share such data with…
Gérard Latortue, former interim prime minister of Haiti who helped rebuild the country after a violent coup in the mid-2000s,…
The New York, Maryland, Illinois, Maine and Michigan speakers will meet with Biden-Harris officials to discuss “common policy priorities."
Zandra Flemister, the first Black woman to enter the Secret Service when she joined in 1974, has passed away at…
As states begin checking Medicaid eligibility for the first time in years, as many as 14 million people could lose…
This week, Jennifer McClellan made history to become the first Black woman to be elected to Virginia’s 4th Congressional District.
Lawmakers are urging the FDA to prevent both the marketing and sale of e-cigarette nicotine products to middle and high…
From food shortages to higher costs for goods, countries in Africa are paying a heavy price for Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked…
Republican lawmakers in Texas said DEI initiatives, which benefit the historically disenfranchised, are "forbidden" and "illegal."
North Carolina wants to make it harder to teach about race, as Republican lawmakers push to enact an anti-Critical Race…