: USDA Office Closure Leaves Black Farmers Without Vital Resources
Fears grow that the new policies not only threaten economic stability, but will intensify existing inequalities.| Capital B News
Fears grow that the new policies not only threaten economic stability, but will intensify existing inequalities.| Capital B News
The agency will no longer use the term "socially disadvantaged," saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination.| Capital B News
Despite convictions on prostitution counts, Sean Combs’ acquittal on sex trafficking and racketeering sparked outrage — and a painful review of whose trauma is taken seriously.| Capital B News
They are reviving the mission of an association of Black churches that fed and educated Black families after the Civil War.| Capital B News
Gail Etienne, Leona Tate, and Tessie Prevost's story was overshadowed for decades. Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary brings new urgency to their unfinished work.| Capital B News
The former gang leader must still serve the remainder of his 200-year sentence stemming from a 1973 conviction.| Capital B News
The administration claims that it’s targeting DEI. It’s really chipping away at civil rights protections.| Capital B News
Public comments from Black California residents highlight the difficulty of the state’s unprecedented approach to lowering its racial equity gap.| Capital B News
Chicago’s South Side puts the Justice40 federal initiative to the test.| Capital B News
Landowners in rural Sparta, Georgia, vow to fight Wednesday’s decision by the state Public Service Commission in court.| Capital B News
Republican officials are leading a nationwide effort to gut one of the few options Black communities have to stop their overexposure to pollution.| Capital B News
The decision would prohibit most efforts to protect Black people’s access to the ballot box.| Capital B News
Spearheaded by a right-wing think tank, the agenda would roll back policies that have aided Black economic and social gains.| Capital B News
With a fair congressional map signed into law, advocates shift to making sure that residents understand the stakes of this year’s elections.| Capital B News
The U.S. representative from Minnesota didn't face the direct offensive from pro-Israel groups that some of her fellow progressive lawmakers did.| Capital B News
When a rural hospital closes, there’s usually no turning back. Yet, these communities in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee worked across racial lines despite painful histories.| Capital B News
The killing of an unhoused Black man by out-of-state officers intensifies concerns over the convention's impact and protections for local residents.| Capital B News
As diversity programs face pushback, school administrators fear the backlash could exacerbate health disparities already experienced by people of color.| Capital B News
The nation’s goal to increase Black participation in the industry has come with an underlying “peril.”| Capital B News
Love’s Travel Stop hopes to build a travel center in the middle of a community outside Joliet, Illinois. Residents sued to protect their land and health.| Capital B News
