today in black history

October 31, 2025

Singer and Academy Award nominated actress Ethel Waters, a winner of the NY Drama Critics Award, was born in 1896 in Chester, PA.

Today in Black America - October 31

POSTED: October 31, 2025, 7:00 am

  • POST
    • Add to Mixx!
  • SEND TO FRIEND
  • Text Size
  • TEXT SIZE
  • CLEARPRINT
  • PDF

Note: Some newspapers listed use a pay wall that requires a subscription before you can access the article.

USA Today

Education Dept. drastically alters student loan forgiveness

California election maps: How Prop 50 shifts districts, Trump strategy

At least 50 dead as Hurricane Melissa devastates the Caribbean; Bermuda braces for storm


The Associated Press

Government shutdown offers schools a glimpse of life without an Education Department

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt

Trump administration limits refugee admissions to mostly white South Africans


The Washington Post


Who receives SNAP? Food aid for 1 in 8 Americans is threatened in November.


Two of the shutdown’s most dramatic effects are about to hit

Classified U.S. report finds hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations


The New York Times


The Threat of Lost Food Benefits Is Rattling the Vulnerable in Louisiana

A Legal Blizzard in Texas Targets Democrats and Promotes Ken Paxton

Mamdani’s Speech About Being Muslim Resonates Beyond New York City


NJ.com

Inside the frenzied battle to win N.J.'s Black and Latino voters. They may decide the next governor.

3 new polls just came out in final days of the N.J. governor’s race. Here’s what they say.

N.J. deli to give free bag lunches to anyone with SNAP card when benefits go dark starting Saturday


The Los Angeles Times

2 California ICE shootings in nine days: Latest confrontation leaves bloody scene

Poll: Voters side with Newsom, Democrats on Prop. 50 — a potential blow to Trump and GOP


How to vote in California’s Nov. 4 special election


The Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight


IDs are mismatched, illegible — or still missing three weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers

Chicago Sun-Times demands DHS remove social posts using its photos without permission


The Atlanta Journal Constitution


Senate poll: Ossoff riding high in Georgia; MAGA firebrand leads GOP field


Dickens invokes David and Goliath in rally against Trump’s anti-DEI efforts

MARTA and Beltline rail two big transportation items on mayor’s agenda






Note: Some newspapers listed use a pay wall that requires a subscription before you can access the article.

Related References