Voices, Votes & Vision: The Latest in Politics & Public Policy By Janna Rodriguez BlackPressUSA interviewed Janna Rodriguez, an advocate, educator, and champion for early childhood education. She’s the founder and owner of Innovative Daycare Corp in Freeport, NY, where she has created a nurturing, bilingual, and inclusive environment serving children of all abilities. Janna leads advocacy efforts through organizations including the CDA Council, NAEYC, Small Business Majority, Childcare Changemakers, and the CSEA/VOICE Union, where she represents thousands of family childcare providers across New York State. Her efforts ensure that children—especially those from underserved communities—have access to a strong educational…
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Voices, Votes & Vision: The Latest in Politics & Public Policy The interactive chart displays the Wage Growth Tracker along with versions of the tracker for select work and demographic characteristics (shown as either 3-month or 12-month moving averages). See the downloadable spreadsheet for variable definitions. View Other Wage Growth Tracker Charts: Data source The data we use to compute the Atlanta Fed’s Wage Growth Tracker are from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), administered by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (You can find an overview of the CPS on the Census website.) The survey…
Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation Tallia Lee always knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur; from her passion for makeup to her love for event planning, she knew her business spirit would take her far. “Going from one thing to the other, and building all these skills, that allowed me to just keep learning new things, and create and have some artistic expression,” she told EBONY. Through those skills, the 29-year-old decided to take a leap of faith and build her brand, “It’s A Beautiful Day to be Black,” a fun mantra that took over.…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum Donald Trump on Monday seemed to forget the location of his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin—once again raising concerns about the cognitive ability of the 79-year-old president.The president had announced the summit, which will take place in Alaska, in a Truth Social post Friday. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote.But on Monday, the president, twice, erroneously claimed the summit…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump. We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms shipments to Israel. The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make: Will it embrace a politics that is principled and popular, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with the out-of-touch elites and…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum Nancy Pelosi thinks we’re all stupid.That, or she’s already drunk … Could be both.We all know this is a lie; we all know she’s the one who delayed the deployment of the National Guard on J6, and yet here she is, making the claim once again that it was Trump. WE ALL KNOW BETTER, OLD WOMAN.Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake.Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum “I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Trump told a packed room of reporters. “This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re gonna take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m officially invoking Section 740, of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you’ll be meeting the people that…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care Dissociative disorders involve disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception. These conditions typically develop as a response to trauma, allowing the mind to cope with experiences that are too overwhelming to process normally. Symptoms: Memory symptoms: Gaps in memory for personal information Inability to recall important life events Forgetting learned skills or abilities Memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetting Confusion about personal history Identity symptoms: Feeling disconnected from oneself Sense of watching oneself from outside Feeling like different people at different times Confusion about personal identity Different personalities or identity…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care At BWHI, we recognize how cuts to our social safety net programs including Medicaid and food stamps is a significant stressor for Black families, particularly pregnant and postpartum people. This is why we support and uplift organizations like the Shades of Blue Project that stand in the gap for Black women navigating mental health conditions, offering group counseling and support groups, connecting families with social services, and providing prenatal and postpartum support care packages. Each year during July 19-25, the Shades of Blue Project observes and honors Black Maternal Mental Health…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care As part of the 98th General Convention and 119th Anniversary Convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Black Health Matters, Astellas, and ZERO Prostate Cancer hosted a powerful event to educate the organization’s health chairs about prostate cancer, from prevention through diagnosis and treatment. Early Prostate Cancer Detection Can Save Your Life ZERO Prostate Cancer Chief Mission Officer Brian Bragg provided an Overview of prostate cancer and its impact on Black men. Black men are 1.7x more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Because they are often diagnosed later, Black…