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Ricky Smith Named New Head of Atlanta’s ATL Airport

By Aaron Karp Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens appointed Ricky Smith, the longtime CEO of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), as the new head of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). Smith has been executive director and CEO of the Maryland Aviation Administration, which runs BWI, since 2015. He will become general manager of ATL on April 2. The hiring of Smith to lead the world’s busiest passenger airport ends a search that started when Dickens dismissed former general manager Balram Bheodari in May 2024 as part of a broader shakeup of the city government, which owns and operates ATL. Jan Lennon, the

Tulsa Mayor Proposes $100M Plan to Repair Race Massacre

Tulsa’s new mayor proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in the once-thriving district of North Tulsa

Dillard Honors 19 Black Lives Returned After 150 Years

By Curtis Bunn More than 150 years after their heads were severed from their bodies and shipped to Germany for “research,” the craniums of 19 Black people, which were recently returned, will be memorialized Saturday during a sacred ceremony in New Orleans. Dillard University President Monique Guillory said at a news conference Wednesday that the memorial will be “aboutconfronting a dark chapter in medical and scientific history while choosing a path of justice, honor and remembrance.” Those who will be honored died in the city’s Charity Hospital in 1872. Their heads were severed and shipped to Leipzig University in Germany

Molotov Attack at Boulder Walk Injures 8, Suspect Arrested

By Christa Swanson A suspect is in custody after what the FBI is calling a “targeted act of violence” during a peaceful march in support of Israeli hostages at the outdoor Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday. Witnesses said the suspect used a “makeshift flamethrower” and threw Molotov cocktails that burned multiple victims, police and the FBI said. Boulder police say eight people were injured. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Michalek said Sunday evening. Soliman was allegedly heard yelling “Free Palestine” during the attack, according to Michalek, who

Trump Proposes $1.6K Pell Grant Cut Amid Budget Shortfall

By  Katherine Knott and Josh Moody The Trump administration wants to lower the maximum Pell Grant by $1,685 for the 2026–27 academic year as the program faces an estimated $2.7 billion shortfall. The proposed cut, detailed in budget documents released Friday evening, would drop the maximum Pell Grant to $5,710, reversing more than a decade of efforts to steadily boost the award, which helps low-income students attend college. The proposed budget keeps overall funding for the Pell Grant level compared with the current budget, adopted in fiscal year 2024. But the cut to the maximum award is necessary, Trump officials wrote, to address “an untenable shortfall.”

Harvard Returns 1850 Slave Photos to SC Museum in Settlement

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls“Papa Renty,” and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when the photos were taken, a lawyer for

Musk, Top DOGE Officials Exit Trump Admin Amid Tensions

By Wil Steakin Multiple senior DOGE officials are in the process of leaving the Trump administration as Elon Musk officially steps away, sources told ABC News Thursday. Among them is James Burnham, DOGE’s top attorney, and Steve Davis, a longtime Musk lieutenant at Musk’s private companies, who are both in the process of offboarding from their roles as a special government employees, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and X who helped launch the Department of Government Efficiency in order to slash the federal government, said on X Wednesday night that he wanted to

Trump Cuts to Local Food Programs Impact Schools, Farms

By Janet Shamlian At Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, the food is as fresh as can be because most of it comes from local growers. “We receive local shredded carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, because we feel that we need to support people in our own communities,” Jim Keaten, who runs the nutrition program for Durham Public Schools, told CBS News. Keaten said the school district’s produce comes from local growers under a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that was cut by the Trump administration. “Immediately, my thoughts were, what are we going to do?” Keaten said of his first

Teen Caregivers Face Challenges Amid Medicaid Cuts

By Leah Fabel High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom survived a terrible car crash. But her body developed tremors, and she lost mobility. After countless appointments, doctors diagnosed her with Parkinson’s disease, saying it was likely triggered by brain injuries sustained in the wreck. At 15, Yang, an aspiring baseball player and member of his school’s debate team, took on a new role: his mother’s caregiver. Researchers estimate that Yang, now 18, counted among at least 5.4 million U.S. children who provide care to an adult in their home. As state officials eye federal

Trump Admin Moves to End Affirmative Action in Contracts

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to dismantle one of the federal government’s largest and longest-standing affirmative action programs, siding with two White-owned contracting businesses that challenged its constitutionality. In a motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, the Justice Department said that a Transportation Department program that has carved out an estimated $37 billion for minority- and women-owned businesses violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution. If a judge approves the proposed settlement, the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE) will be prohibited from awarding contracts based on race and sex, effectively ending its

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