Category: Politics
By Wesley Brown, Arkansas Black Vitality Publisher June 30, 2025 – As the U.S. Senate considers approving the budget reconciliation process for President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the nation’s leading healthcare providers warn that the nearly 1,000-page legislation to make many of the tax breaks from Trump’s first term permanent could cause millions of Americans […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff June 29, 2025 – Mayor Frank Scott Jr. recently appointed longtime City of Little Rock Fire Chief Delphone Habbard as the new city manager for Arkansas’ largest city after former candidate Dakisha Wesley was abruptly pulled from consideration. During a June 17 board meeting, the Little Rock Board of […]
By Clarence Taylor, courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History June 1, 2025 – Although African Americans have been the victims of racial oppression throughout the history of the United States, they have always supported the nation, especially during wartime. When World War II erupted, over 2.5 million Black men registered for the […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 30, 2025 –Black unemployment in April jumped 0.7 percentage points between March and April, testing the well-worn Trump administration talking points that the Black economy improves under the MAGA agenda. The Arkansas Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), announced on May 21 […]