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Tuskegee University president testifies on state of higher education

Ā Tuskegee University President Mark Brown highlighted the importance of federal investments, such as Pell Grants, to studentsā€™ success in higher education during a hearing Wednesday. Brown appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee alongside other higher education leaders. He discussed his perspective from a Historically Black College and University on the current state of higher education. Brown is the first alumnus of Tuskegee University to lead the school. He noted how the impact of HBCUs, like Tuskegee, expands beyond the small percentage of the universities they represent in the United States. ā€œ(Tuskegee Universityā€™s) 81% retention rate demonstrates

Adams, Figures Introduce Legislation to Protect Federal Funding for Land-Grant HBCUs

Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12), founder and co-chair of the Bipartisan, Bicameral Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caucus, and Congressman Shomari C. Figures (AL-02) introduced theĀ Land-Grant Institution Parity Act. The Land-Grant Institution Parity Act protects federal funding for our land-grant colleges and universities, including the countryā€™sĀ 19 land-grant HBCUs, commonly referred to as 1890 Institutions. This bill comes following the USDAā€™sĀ suspensionĀ andĀ reinstatementĀ of the 1890 National Scholars Program, a scholarship program for 1890 Institution students studying agriculture, food, or natural resources sciences, earlier this year. ā€œThe Land-Grant Institution Parity Act is an important step to protect funding for our land-grant HBCUs

Justice Department ends police reform agreements and halts investigations into major departments

The Trump administration is moving to dismiss federal oversight agreements in Louisville and Minneapolis reached following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and police killing of George Floyd, and dropping investigations into several major US police departments. The move, announced by the head of the Justice Departmentā€™s Civil Rights Division, reflects the administrationā€™s opposition to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the DOJ found a pattern of misconduct. The agreements, called consent decrees, are approved by a federal judge and are used as a monitoring system for police department reform when an investigation finds that it is needed.

Examining Impact of DEI Rollback on Target Revenue

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Examining Impact of DEI Rollback on Target Revenue Trends Q1, this article shows how DEI pullbacks and boycotts drove a $680M drop in Q1 sales. Target sales have dropped drastically, more than analysts predicted in their first quarter. The company expects sales to continue to decline throughout the remainder of the year. Shoppers have been pulling back due to concerns about tariffs and the broader economy. However, that can’t be the only reason for the company’s sales to be down $680 million in the first quarter. DEI pullbacks and boycotts are responsible for the major decline.Ā  Identifying the Key Factors

Verizon DEI Policy Shift Secures $20B Frontier Deal Approval

Learn how Verizon DEI policy changes enabled FCC approval of its $20B Frontier deal and reshaped corporate DEI trends. Verizon has becomeĀ the latest big companyĀ to end policies aroundĀ diversity, equity and inclusion, or “DEI,” in order to keep the U.S. government happy. Verizon DEI Policy Reversal: Strategic Motivations It seems to have worked: on Friday, the Federal Communications Commission approved Verizon’s $20 billion deal to buy broadband provider Frontier Communications.Ā The FCC said that the deal will allow Verizon to upgrade the technology providing internet access to 25 states, including rural communities, and to deploy fiber-optic access to at least 1 million

DOJ charges New Jersey congresswoman with assault over immigration facility tussle

By Raquel Coronell Uribe and Ryan J. Reilly The Justice Department has filed charges against a Democratic member of Congress, alleging that she assaulted law enforcement officers during a protest outside an immigration detention facility in New Jersey earlier this month. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., faces two counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officials in connection with an incident at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, according to court documents made public on Tuesday. Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba, who served as Trump’s personal attorney and previously worked as counselor to the president,

Student Loan Defaults Spike as Repayments Resume Under Trump

Student loan delinquencies have surged, according to the New York Federal Reserveā€™s latest household debt report released May 13, following the Trump administrationā€™s decision to end the Biden-era pause on reporting missed payments. According to the Fed, a serious federal student loan delinquency occurs when a borrower misses payments for 90 days or more. That rate jumped from 1% in the first quarter of 2024 to nearly 8% in the same period of 2025, coinciding with the resumption of delinquency reporting. Daniel Mangrum, a research economist at the New York Fed, noted the increaseĀ in his comments on the report in

Malcolm X Family Pressing for Release of Assassination Files

By Lexx Thornton Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activistwho was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. His powerful oratory, his role as a key figure in the Nation of Islam, and his advocacy for Black nationalism and Black self-defense are some of the key highlights that made him a dominate force in America. Being born in 1925 this year marks his centennial birthday and in celebration of his 100th birthday Malcom Xā€™s family is pressing President Trump to release government files on assassination. The iconic Black

NJ Transit strike ends after shutting down New Jersey trains for weekend, union says

By Ry Rivard The strike that idled NJ Transit trains is over after three days. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said Sunday night that after two days of post-strike negotiations theyā€™d reached a deal and ā€œwill return to work.ā€ State officials said rail service wouldnā€™t begin again until Tuesday, though the union had said it would be back on Monday. NJ Transit is asking only essential workers to use its system on Monday and will beĀ using the contingency plan it spent months working on as the strike loomed. The union, known as BLET, was seeking pay comparable to

Black college seniors graduating into soft labor market and reduced DEI practices

ByĀ Cela Migan Howard University senior Dezmond Rosier had his sights set on the federal government to begin his career. The 22-year-old, who graduated this month with a bachelorā€™s degree in political science and an economics minor, planned to apply to the Department of Education, butĀ cuts to the departmentā€™s workforceĀ and the Trump administrationā€™s efforts to ditch anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives prompted him to change course. Rosier, a first-generation college student, said President Donald Trumpā€™s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education and his moves to put the plan in motion once he entered the White House

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