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Trump Finally Helped Disabled Veterans With Their Student Loans

Residents of the U.S. Collectively hold $1.56 trillion in student cash advance debt — a number heard around the nation thanks to many democratic presidential candidates who have made canceling that debt a central segment of their campaign. Some of these debt-holders are also disabled veterans. President Donald Trump wants to repair at least segment of that. Kind of. The president..

What You Need To Know About The Amazonian Fires: 'The Climate Crisis Is Here, Now, Today'

By Lauren Rearick At 3 p.M. On Wednesday, August 21, darkness fell over São Paulo, the hugest city in Brazil. For one hour, the mid-afternoon sky of the seventh most populated city in the world was shrouded in smoke, resulting in a scene that some on social media compared to the apocalypse. Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology attributed the smoke and resulting darkening to..

Planned Parenthood Opted Out Of Title X Rather Than Appease Trump's Demands

By Lauren Rearick On Monday, August 19, Suggested Parenthood reported it would no longer participate in Title X, a federal program that provides affordable reproductive health care access to more than four million people living In the U.S.. In a statement, the corporation explained it was “forced out” of Title X as a result of President Donald Trump’s newly-implemented “gag..

The NYPD Officer Who Put Eric Garner In A Chokehold Has Finally Been Fired

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner was confronted by NYPD officers on a Staten Island street corner for allegedly selling single loose cigarettes. One of these officers, Daniel Pantaleo, placed Garner in a prohibited chokehold that ultimately killed him. That chokehold resulted in Garner’s dying plea — “I can’t breathe” — which became a rallying cry for those protesting poli..

Israel Banned Reps. Tlaib And Omar From Visiting — And Trump Only Made It Worse

While President Donald Trump stroked tensions between two Democratic U.S. Congresswomen and the state of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) from visiting the nation and the Palestinian territories, according to NPR. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely mentioned the nation would resist entry to “t..

Inside Never Again Action, The Movement Inspiring Hundreds Of Jewish Activists To Mobilize

By Rebecca Nathanson On June 30, about 200 Jewish activists and other allies crossed the Hudson River from New York City and noticed their way to the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, intending to protest the treatment of migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The facility houses about 300 people, and the activists waited up until visitin..

I'm From Dayton, Ohio — We Need To Keep Talking About White Violence

By Preston Mitchum It was a Saturday night — so late, it was technically Sunday — as a shooter killed nine people and injured 27 more in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. He targeted people outdoor the Ned Peppers Bar in the city's historic Oregon District; six of these killed were Black. Hearing the news of Dayton’s mass shooting on Sunday, August 4 struck me with immediate fear..

Where Do Young Black Americans Fit In The Fight For Reparations?

By Lincoln Anthony Blades In December 1864, a month before Congress passed the 13th Amendment to officially abolish slavery, Confederate soldiers brutally massacred formerly enslaved Black folks along the shores of Ebenezer Creek in Effingham County, Georgia. After the carnage, Union General William T. Sherman met with abolitionists, preachers, and the formerly enslaved to answer one..

The Trump Administration Is Putting Threatened Species In Even More Danger

By Lauren Rearick On Monday, August 12, the Trump administration reported several intended revisions to the Endangered Species Act, which the U.S. Has followed since 1973, including a change in protection for animals listed as threatened, the Wall Street Journal reported. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service currently lists 319 species as threatened, including sea otters, grizzly and ..

Why Didn't The DOJ Tell Congress What They Knew About White Supremacist Domestic Terrorism?

White supremacists were accountable for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report obtained by Yahoo News on Friday, August 8. According to Yahoo, the report, which was prepared by New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security Preparedness, was made public while the Trump administration was “unable or unwilling to allocate int..

ICE Arrested Nearly 700 People — And Left Kids Stranded At School

On Wednesday, August 8, kids headed to class in Mississippi for their starting week back to school. Yet some of those kids had no ability to go home: That same day, U.S. Immigration officials arrested nearly 700 people, some of whom are parents, while in a massive raid on seven food processing flowers, according to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger. Search warrants were executed in s..

Deferred Dreams: How Student Loan Debt Disproportionately Affects Entrepreneurs Of Color

By Nicole Castillo As a 35-year-old single mom and first-generation student preparing to put herself through law school, Ramona Ortega needed student cash advances for more than just an education; she required them “just to survive.”. However nine years later, she still holds what she describes as “extreme student debt” of over $200,000. Though astronomical, that number didn�..

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