DeSean Jackson is stepping into his first season as head coach at Delaware State. He’s all set to begin this new chapter in his life. His vision goes far beyond just wins and losses; he wants to get more people taking note of HBCU programs. Following in the footsteps of Deion Sanders’ transformative run at Jackson State,
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By Raquel Coronell Uribe While Congress scrambles to pass President Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy bill, many red states are already implementing key aspects of his agenda through new laws this week. For most states, Tuesday is the start of a new fiscal year, when numerous laws take effect. Some of the statutes in Trump-won states this year mirror
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By Steve Berkowitz While the NCAA has informed schools that they may provide up to $20.5 million in new benefits for athletes during the 2025-26 school year as part of the settlement of three athlete-compensation antitrust cases against the association and the Power Five conferences, the plaintiffs’ lawyers say they are exercising their right to have the data
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By Aria Bendix More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet. Researchers calculated the lifesaving benefits of USAID funding over a 21-year period, then used the data to
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By Shannon Pettypiece Legislation making its way through the Senate stands to have wide-ranging effects across the economy — bolstering tax benefits for businesses and higher-income households while threatening health insurance for millions of Americans and putting thousands of clean energy and health care jobs at risk. The bill, which is more than 900 pages
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Written By Lexx Thornton Nearly 2 million student loan borrowers are at risk of having their wages garnished by the government this summer, according to TransUnion. The credit-reporting company found that roughly six million federal student loan borrowers were 90 days or more past due between February and April, making them delinquent. Approximately one-third of
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Written By Lexx Thornton Business owners who’ve spared a sympathetic thought for California fast food chains that have financed the state’s $20 minimum wage over the past year might want to turn that empathy to hotels in Los Angeles. Under a recently passed municipal ordinance, all larger hotels in the city must raise hourly wages
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Written By Lexx Thornton A world-renowned US university choir makes historic London return. The Hampton University Concert Choir’s UK tour will rekindle memories of a landmark moment in its musical history.  It was nearly a century ago that London provided one of the highlights on their 1930 European tour, under the leadership of renowned composer,
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