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

by Stacy M. Brown June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

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Financial Literacy

Pell Grants in Peril: 7 Million Recipients Face $9 Billion Program Cut

by Charlene Crowell, Special to The Informer June 19, 2025June 30, 2025

**FILE** Analysts and civil rights advocates say the recent budget bill the House passed will disproportionately harm Black Americans. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

10 Ways the House Budget Bill Delivers a Direct Blow to Black America

by Stacy M. Brown May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

**FILE** The entrance to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's headquarters in Washington, D.C. (G. Edward Johnson, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Financial Literacy

House Committee Votes to Strip CFPB’s Victim Compensation Fund

by Charlene Crowell, Special to The Informer May 15, 2025May 23, 2025

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks in front of the U.S. Capitol on March 10 with D.C. Council members and other political leaders, standing up against a continuing resolution that keeps the federal government open at the expense of the District government. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Senators Demand House GOP Release D.C.’s Frozen $1 Billion

by Stacy M. Brown May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

**FILE** President Bill Clinton talks with Director of the Office of Public Liaison Alexis Herman along the White House Colonnade on Feb. 22, 1995. (White House Photograph Office via Wikimedia Commons)

MALVEAUX: Alexis Herman — Grace, Grit and Glue

by Julianne Malveaux May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

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Slotkin Rips Trump’s ‘Reckless’ Agenda in Fiery Rebuttal: ‘He’ll Make You Pay’

by Stacy M. Brown March 5, 2025March 5, 2025

The Rev. Kendrick Curry, pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church in Ward 7, chats with new U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew M. Graves. (James Wright/The Washington Informer)

Matthew Graves to Resign as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

by Stacy M. Brown December 30, 2024December 30, 2024

**FILE** President Joe Biden has vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have created dozens of new federal judicial positions, citing unresolved questions about its provisions and timing. (WI photo)

Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Bill to Create New Federal Judgeships

by Stacy M. Brown December 24, 2024December 24, 2024

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JEALOUS: The Liberty in Laundry Act Sounds Like a Joke. Sadly It’s Not.

by Ben Jealous December 24, 2024December 24, 2024