Year: 2025

• America Fights Back
• Regular Column

NAACP Shuts Out Trump: First Time in 116 Years, Civil Rights Group Refuses to Invite Sitting President

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown Weary of President Donald Trump’s attacks on civil rights, immigrants and diversity and...

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• America Under Attack
• Civil Rights
• Regular Column

Civil Rights Groups Demand Congressional Oversight as Trump’s DOJ Abandons Civil Rights Mandate

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, joined by more than 80...

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• America Under Attack
• Civil Rights
• Regular Column

Social Security, Medicare Face Financial Challenges as Trust Fund Depletion Dates Advance

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown The latest annual report from the Boards of Trustees overseeing the Social Security...

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• Regular Column

Widow of D.C. Officer Assaulted on Jan. 6 Wins Partial Legal Victory

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown More than four years later, a D.C. jury has found a man who...

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• Regular Column

Americans Warned: You Could Be a Target

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown The U.S. State Department on Sunday issued a rare worldwide travel advisory warning...

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• America Under Attack
• Regular Column

Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’ Heads to Vote Today — Top 5 Ways It Drains Black America

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown The Senate is set to vote Monday on the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,”...

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• America Under Attack
• Health
• Regular Column

NIH Defunds Study on Black Infant Prematurity in Broader Crackdown on DEI Research

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown A federally funded study exploring why Black babies in Detroit are disproportionately born...

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• America Under Attack
• Regular Column

House Republicans Ram Through Brutal Cuts: 17 Million to Lose Health Care

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown Despite the major affect it’ll have on working families, House Republicans on Wednesday...

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• BPRWire
• Press Release

Fair Budget Coalition Urges Senate to Reject Harmful Budget Reconciliation Bill, Protect Essential Programs

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Fair Budget Coalition,  a broad alliance of civil rights organizations, policy...

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• BPRWire
• Press Release

NAACP and Other Civil Rights Groups Demand Department of Energy Withdraw Rule Rolling Back Civil Rights Protections

AAV Staff July 7, 2025

(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON — The NAACP, along with a coalition of allied organizations and legal experts, filed formal...

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