Written By Lexx Thornton President Donald Trump is still defending the Confederacy in 2025. The National Park Service announced on Aug. 4 that it intends to restore and reinstall a monument honoring Albert Pike just miles from the U.S. Capitol grounds. The announcement fails to mention that Pike was a Confederate general who fought to
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By Kimmy Yam President Donald Trump is expected to sign a directive on Thursday mandating that universities provide admissions data to prove that they are not implementing affirmative action policies, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X. Leavitt did not disclose the criteria that the administration will use to determine whether schools are practicing race-conscious admissions.
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On August 7, 2025, UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building announced the launch of its “Wealth in Numbers” campaign, an effort designed to better understand wealth building perspectives of students, faculty and staff at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The campaign will offer a $10,000 prize to the HBCU with the highest response rate. The survey is
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By Ben Kamisar, Natasha Korecki and Adam Edelman As dozens of Texas state House Democrats near the one-week mark of their quorum break, fleeing the state indefinitely to prevent state GOP leaders from redrawing congressional lines, it’s not just politics that loom over the strategy. It’s money, too. The Democrats face a $500 fine for each day they’re “absent
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By Chase Cain The Trump administration is planning to undo most of the cuts to the National Weather Service put in place earlier this year by the Department of Government Efficiency. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has received permission to fill 450 positions at the National Weather Service, roles that will include meteorologists, hydrologists and
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