Trump

As NAACP members gathered from across the country, the efforts of the second administration of President Donald Trump loomed over their 116th national convention, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 12 through 16.

In a major victory for President Trump, Congress has approved a rescission package clawing back $9 billion in federal funds for priorities he deemed wasteful, including $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund PBS and NPR and member stations like GBH.

In alliance with his compliant foot soldiers on Capitol Hill and emboldened by a Supreme Court majority bending to his wishes, Donald Trump is using his second term in office to create an upside-down Alice in Wonderland government where civil rights become civil wrongs and the strength of diversity becomes a weakness.

None of us should be silent about the recent use of federal agents by this administration to bully, arrest and investigate political opponents. Just as none of us should accept as normal or okay its use of the military against Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. 

Kanessa Alexander has put up a Juneteenth flag celebrating her business, Perfect 10 Salon, for years. But this year, her father is nervous for her to display the symbol of support for Black-owned businesses outside of her West Roxbury salon’s door, believing it might make her a target.

Hundreds of residents, Boston City Councilors and local labor union members gathered in Boston’s Circle Plaza, condemning the recent raids carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles.

When Elon Musk called President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” a “disgusting abomination,” he was right for the wrong reasons.

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement have removed from the quiet streets of exurban Milford an 18-year-old who is an honors student at the town’s high school, brought from Brazil by his parents more than a decade ago.

President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared an unconditional “War on Poverty” in his 1964 State of the Union address, initiating one of the most ambitious policy initiatives in American history aimed at systemic economic inequality.

Since the start of the second Trump administration in January, climate and resilience efforts have seen funding cuts hamper progress.

President Donald Trump’s administration fired Carla Hayden from her job as Librarian of Congress on Thursday. She was the first woman and African American person to head the world’s largest library.

As publisher and editor of the Bay State Banner, I am occasionally invited to take part in media events around the city and most recently had the pleasure of attending a GBH media forum where I met Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.