By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 4, 2025 – With one week left before this year’s Mother’s Day celebration, retailers cross the nation are preparing to bombard consumers with advertising and messaging According to the annual survey released on April 28 by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics, consumer spending on Mother’s Day is […]
By Wesley Brown – President Donald J. Trump moved forward with a campaign promise to end funding for the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a goal also shared by Republican lawmakers in Arkansas attempting to do the same. At the end of a week where he celebrated his first 100 […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff April 26, 2025 – In a surprise move that caught many Black college supporters off guard, President Donald Trump this week announced a White House initiative to elevate and advance the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As is his preferred governing approach, Trump issued an executive order […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality April 27, 2025 – Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration will give debt collectors back the power to pursue millions of Americans who have defaulted on student loans. In a strongly worded announcement on Monday (April 21), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) said its […]