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In an ad timed for Black History Month, President Joe Biden touted gains Black Americans made during his tenure. The Feb. 13 advertisement said, “The lowest Black unemployment rate in history. Black child poverty cut in half. Record numbers of new Black entrepreneurs. And over $130 billion in student debt forgiven.” We’ve rated a few of those claims Mostly True: The record low for Black unemployment was reached in April 2023 and Black child poverty hit a record low of 22.3% in 2022. The Biden administration has also announced student debt forgiveness totaling $136 billion. While the student loan forgiveness efforts…

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump spoke frequently about the drug crisis ravaging rural communities in states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Trump didn’t have solutions—compared to Hillary Clinton’s $10 billion “Initiative to Combat America’s Deadly Epidemic of Drug and Alcohol Addiction,” Trump’s plan was a hastily scribbled sketch—but he had rhetoric. His message had two prongs. The first was compassion and treatment for the victims. “[T]he people that are in trouble, the people that are addicted, we’re going to work with them and try and make them better,” he said in a Facebook video during the Republican…

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Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty A video going viral on social media claims to show footage from a Denny’s restaurant in South Dakota where two Black men were seated before being denied service and criminalized based on the color of their skin. It was the latest in a long line of anti-Black allegations against the chain of diners over the past three decades. The video was posted to TikTok allegedly by a friend of one of the would-be patrons, “a Long Haul truck driver” who was at the Denny’s “with his business partner,” a caption for the video says in…

Editor’s Note: An updated story on black-owned food businesses in Utah can be found here. While thousands are making a statement about injustice at marches, protests and vigils, many Utahns have found an additional way to fight racial inequity.They are spending their dining dollars at restaurants, food trucks and bakeries owned by people of color.“For a white person who is not comfortable going to a protest,” said Rita Magalde, owner of Sheer Ambrosia Bakery, “this is another way to support black Americans.”(Photo courtesy of Sheer Ambrosia Bakery) Owner Rita Magalde makes baklava at her Sheer Ambrosia Bakery.(Photo courtesy of Sauce…

Friends on Airport Boulevard Image Credit: Rahim Fortune for Rolling Stone “I was born and raised in Austin, and I ran into these men while on Airport Blvd. They spoke about the current state of our city and that, although in many ways it’s always been a racist city, they still do not want to see it burn. As one of them put it: “That’s not how my momma raised me.” Source link

We may be nearing the end of Black History Month but there are always lessons to be learned about the disparate racial impacts of federal programs. There is always time to rectify past mistakes, particularly recent ones. As was recently announced, the Biden Administration is taking steps to more equitably administer the Paycheck Protection Program, but it must do more to reach Black-owned small businesses in particular. Failing to Reach Black Communities The CARES Act and Paycheck Protection Program & Healthcare Enhancement Act funded 5.2 million loans, worth $525B from April 3 to August 8, 2020. This money failed to…

Since late May, Seattle and its surrounding communities have seen widespread demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed on May 25 when a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee on his neck for several minutes. His death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice. The anger, hurt, and turmoil has left many wanting and searching for additional ways to support the Black community.  We’ve compiled a list of Black-owned businesses in Seattle across various categories. If you know of others that should be added, email us at…

Despite vocal opposition from faculty members and racial justice groups, Indiana’s Republican governor signed legislation Wednesday diminishing diversity, equity and inclusion programs and tenure protections in public colleges and universities while simultaneously promoting, as the new law puts it, “intellectual diversity.” In a failed scramble to stop Senate Bill 202, an Indiana coalition called the University Alliance for Racial Justice said that, while it opposed the threatened “loss of tenure” and other ramifications faculty members had decried, “what is most egregious about the bill is the fact that such sanctions would be imposed as a consequence for speaking about discrimination…

Video Surfaces Of Man Charged In Twins‘ Stabbing Getting Beatdown, Claims Self-Defense Black Enterprise Source link