Despite still-fresh images of white men on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants in Texas, the Biden administration is on the hunt for a new contract to operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The Biden-Harris Administration hosted National HBCU Week; a celebration of historically Black colleges and universities throughout the country.
Proponents of student debt cancelation applaud the Biden Administration's extension of the pause on student loan payments but want the president to take action and cancel the debt.
Senior Advisor to the president, Cedric Richmond, said the bipartisan infrastructure framework was designed to address issues disproportionately impacting Black and other communities of color.
With the economy slowly recovering and normalcy appearing to be on the rise, Child Tax Credit payments will begin hitting bank accounts this week.
On Wednesday the Biden administration announced it will purchase and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to countries in need over the next year. While it is a step forward, it won't eliminate the 700 million dose shortage Africa is currently facing.
Tim Scott, the only Black Republican U.S. Senator, told Americans that the U.S. is not racist despite his white colleagues nominating him to rebut the president's first address to Congress simply because he is, in fact, Black.
The Biden administration is looking to expedite getting abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill. The decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Tubman on the note was set forth in 2016 and later stalled by the Trump administration. President Joe Biden has swiftly began cleaning up the mess left behind and moving forward with the country’s unfinished business.
The memes are infinite from today's celebration, but the one that is still heating up the timeline is that of US Senator Bernie Sanders. Twitter is having a field day photoshopping him into different settings and using Bernie as the meme of the week.
Biden's executive actions carry out the vision of his 100 day plan, and will also target underserved Black populations stressed under the weight of two pandemics, racism and the coronavirus.