By RTM Newsroom
Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson declared “We are done with DEI at the FTC” in January 2025. Now, he is praising Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas for protecting “white American men from discrimination.”
During a Thursday (October 8) press conference, Ferguson called Lucas the greatest leader of the EEOC since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...
As Trump deploys federal monitors, the NAACP and civil rights groups mobilize to protect Black voters from intimidation.
by Joseph Williams
More eyes on the polls don't necessarily mean safer elections. With a history of surveillance and intimidation at the ballot box, Black communities have reason to be wary as...
What Good Is Winning if We Lose Our Moral Compass?
By Rev. Peter Johnson
I have spent much of my life in churches, meeting rooms and on street corners, talking with people about the kind of country we want to leave our children. Sometimes those conversations were about voting. Sometimes they...
By Samir Iydroose
Youth Services Ambassador Ari Pires (right) doing the tango with another Youth Services Ambassador. Samir Iydroose Photos.
Salsera Alisa Bowens-Mercado beckoned to attendees who had filled Thornton Wilder Hall, many still seated at folding tables covered in alternating green, red, and yellow cellophane. On cue, they rose from...
By Shaunda Holloway
Etienne Charles entered the stage wearing a plaid jacket with notes of hot pink, green, blue, and gray. Already, he was rocking a pair of bright pink boots, his face rimmed in lime green glow-in-the-dark-glasses. Even before he began to play, he radiated a well-earned confidence,...
By Charlene ReillyOctober
This citizen contribution was submitted by New Haven Youth Soccer League’s Charlene Reilly.
The New Haven Youth Soccer League competed in the MIST Tournament in Madison on Sept. 19 and 20.
Under-11 Girls Comp Team MIST Recap | Coach Nick, Assistant Coach Tomas
What a weekend at the MIST Tournament...
by Brandon Cortes
Connecticut’s state college and university system will spend $4.2 million over the next year to build and expand teacher residency programs, as the state continues to wrestle with a shortage of classroom teachers.
The money, which comes from an anonymous donor, funds the second year of the program.
Gov....
As Trump deploys federal monitors, the NAACP and civil rights groups mobilize to protect Black voters from intimidation.
by Joseph Williams
More eyes on the...
Jayne Kennedy finally tells Story Behind Plain Jayne
By Stephanie Ward Texas Metro News
Jayne Kennedy’s name was synonymous with beauty. People would say she was...
The Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former psychiatrist convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is drawing criticism from...
by Ariama C. Long
The Trump administration once again proposed major changes to the 2030 U.S. Census that could leave out noncitizens and remove questions...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — As Black parents strive to raise resilient, confident, brilliant children within systems that too often underestimate them, an Atlanta-based company launches...
By Samir Iydroose
Youth Services Ambassador Ari Pires (right) doing the tango with another Youth Services Ambassador. Samir Iydroose Photos.
Salsera Alisa Bowens-Mercado beckoned to attendees who had filled Thornton Wilder...
by Brandon Cortes
Connecticut’s state college and university system will spend $4.2 million over the next year to build and expand teacher residency programs, as the state continues to wrestle...
by Thomas Breen
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal (center): “Only through uniform nationwide enforcement can we eliminate discriminatory barriers and guarantee equitable access to care for all families.” Credit: Thomas Breen photo
“If...
by Laura Glesby
Establish new mold and temperature standards for all New Haven Public School buildings. Create a public dashboard of the status of all school maintenance complaints. Assemble a...
by Thomas Breen
“I am astonished and appalled that this kind of ICE brutality and inhumanity is continuing.”
So said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Friday morning when asked about how...
by Paul Bass
New Haveners will take “revolutionary” walks through our history to help craft a new take on how our city developed and where it’s going next.
Those walks will...
by Brandon Cortes
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center cut the ribbon Wednesday on the new home of its Child & Family Guidance Program at 150 Dixwell Ave., moving the children’s behavioral...
by Donald Eng
An audit of the Teacher’s Retirement Board has recommended strengthening the controls over purchase orders after auditors found $113,476 spread over six vouchers for which the corresponding...
by Paul Bass
Officials gathered in one of New Haven’s new bioscience towers to cut the ribbon on a tech innovation hub — and on a dream for our state’s...
by Brandon Cortes
Access-to-capital panelists, from left: Lindy Lee Gold, Sana Shaikh of NHE3, Sylina Jacobs of the SBA, and Anthony Booth-Carvalho of Grow America. Credit: Brandon Cortes
About 130 food...
by Paul Bass
Compassion + Accountability = Community Policing.
That’s how New Haven sees the formula for community policing in 2026, according to Police Chief David Zannelli.
Zannelli has traversed the city...
by Brian Slattery
Prologue: Soul in HandSOURCE/MATERIAL838 Whalley Ave.Through Oct. 31
The pixellating effects of the print can’t take away the graceful sweep of the image, the way the cloth flows...
Families across the country are opening their monthly utility bills with a growing sense of dread. Groceries cost more. Rent costs more. Now electricity has become one more...
As Trump deploys federal monitors, the NAACP and civil rights groups mobilize to protect Black voters from intimidation.
by Joseph Williams
More eyes on the...
Jayne Kennedy finally tells Story Behind Plain Jayne
By Stephanie Ward Texas Metro News
Jayne Kennedy’s name was synonymous with beauty. People would say she was...
The Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former psychiatrist convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is drawing criticism from...
by Ariama C. Long
The Trump administration once again proposed major changes to the 2030 U.S. Census that could leave out noncitizens and remove questions...
