Education and transportation take center stage in Mayor John Cooper’s capital spending plan (CSP), which includes Nashville’s largest-ever investment for schools and advances transportation improvements without additional tax increases. Two-thirds of the $474.6 million plan go to education and transportation…
America’s persistent racial income and wealth gaps are the result of four intertwined factors: housing, education, business ownership and access to credit. Closing these gaps would facilitate inter-generational wealth creation for Black America and also expand the nation’s economy by…
Lost in the aftermath of the demonstrations stemming from the police killing of George Floyd and the pandemic is the issue of reparations for African Americans. Asheville, a North Carolina city where Black people make up just 11% of the…
Vanessa R. Williams has earned the description of the “glue that holds 650 African American mayors together.” In a lengthy conversation with Black Press USA, it was easy to see why. “I came into this organization as a new executive…
This week, I convened a bipartisan group of Senators to read aloud Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘A Letter from a Birmingham Jail.’ This was the second year I’ve done this, and I hope to make it an annual tradition. I…
Troy Vincent’s career and life have come a long way since the Miami Dolphins selected him with the 7th pick in the National Football League (NFL) Draft in 1992. The former five-time Pro-Bowl cornerback has risen to become the second-in-command…
