today in black history

June 01, 2026

Howard Dodson, Jr., the former Director of New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in, was born in 1939 in Chester, PA.

Today in Black America - June 1

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The Washington Post

Column: Trump’s name may come off the Kennedy Center. He could still destroy it.

Loan rules would gut aid for thousands of low-paying college majors

What to know about California’s messy governor’s race


The New York Times


How California Redistricting Shrunk the Competitive Map

N.Y.C. Children May Get Up to $3,000 From City for College Accounts

Oil Prices Jump as U.S. and Iran Exchange Fire


NJ.com


Delaney Hall protesters arrested as riot police storm streets. Chaos continues as curfew begins.

50,000 N.J. residents could be forced out by new Trump rule. Are they gone forever?


Does your N.J. town lean Republican or Democrat? See striking new voter registration numbers.


The Associated Press

Trump is facing a new inflation warning from the bond market, adding to his midterm challenges

Jerome Powell uses JFK award speech to warn against political pressure on Fed, courts and schools

Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms show off head start in Georgia as Republicans battle in runoff



USA Today


DOJ sues 4 states in dispute over 'undercover plates' for ICE agents


Pence warns of GOP 'departure' from conservative principles


Is Trump a convicted felon? He was convicted of this 2 years ago



The Los Angeles


L.A.’s top mayoral candidates fan out across the city making final case to voters


Trying to be ‘strategic,’ California Democrats wait to vote amid fears of governor’s lockout


Here are the big cases the Supreme Court will decide in June


The Chicago Sun-Times


Illinois Democrats pass $56B state budget that includes new taxes on prediction markets, crypto


‘Broadview 6’ defendants reflect on case doomed by feds' apparent misconduct: 'We didn’t commit a crime’

Bears blocked in Illinois: House spikes late-session play for new stadium bill that cleared Senate


The Atlanta Journal Constitution


7 takeaways from Sunday’s marathon political debates ahead of the runoffs

Ossoff and Bottoms launch unified ticket with a litany of attacks against Trump

Atlanta muralist Charity Hamidullah risks it all to transform the city’s walls






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