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From spender to saver: Transforming your financial future with a savings mindset

(Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase) – A savings mindset is a mental framework characterized by disciplined financial habits and a conscious commitment to regularly setting aside money for future needs and goals. It involves cultivating habits, attitudes, a...

Statement from DART on sales tax reduction

(DART Board of Directors) – It is unfortunate to witness Dallas Area Rapid Transit member city councils consider and approve adversarial resolutions against our transit agency. Although the timing and language of these resolutions are similar, the co...

Rent relief: A winning policy issue for the Harris campaign

(Trice Edney Communications) – Renters account for approximately 34% of the U.S. population, with 44 million housing units in the U.S. currently being rented. Talking directly to this constituency is a winning formula. The Department of Labor recentl...

Sonya Massey should still be alive

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – In many ways our nation has changed, but it hasn’t changed. When the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, opened in Montgomery, Alabama, it was to commemorate the Black vi...

JD Vance, tell me that again!

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – We’ve had to do a lot of listening lately about choices we must make about who’ll be our next president when 2025 rolls around. Single women should be having children if we want to have something to do about the future of our n...

My plan to reform the Supreme Court and ensure no president is above the law

(The White House) – This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one.But the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on J...

Sheila Jackson Lee – An Energizer Bunny for justice

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX, didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so many other challenges, working with her doctors on a treatment pla...

Women creating change

(Children’s Defense Fund) – When a large meeting of Black women voters made headlines this week, to many people it was another reminder of the major role Black women and all women have always played in creating transforming change. Women at the...

Ask Terri! Travel and Financial Preparedness

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Asthma disparities in the Black community

(The Dallas Examiner) – “The reality of the situation is that Black Americans experience worse asthma outcomes when compared to their White counterparts. When we look into the statistics, asthma is disproportionately diagnosed in Black Americans,” Ar...

Powerful sermons over popularity: Black faith leaders gather at 28th Annual E.K. Bailey Expository Preaching Conference

(The Dallas Examiner) – Discussions on Project 2025, social injustices and Christian nationalism were held as thousands of denominational and non-denominational Black pastors and faith leaders from all across the country convened at the 28th Annual E...

Statement on the African Growth and Opportunity Act forum in Washington, D.C.

As stakeholders gather tomorrow for the African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum in Washington, I call on Congress to quickly reauthorize and modernize this landmark Act – which is set to expire in 2025.For more than two decades, the bipartisan AGOA...

Texas Democrats respond to Donald Trump’s RNC Speech, July 18

Tonight, we saw Trump diving back into his extremism. We were reminded again that this is the same man who overturned Roe, led an insurrection on our nation’s Capital and siloed the middle class in favor of extremist billionaires. Trump and J.D. Vanc...

The Legacy Continues: HBCU baseball players hit the field for MLB All-Star Week to compete in Swingman Classic

(The Dallas Examiner) – The 2024 MLB All-Star Week began with 50 of the top baseball players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities taking the stage at the Globe Life Field. The second annual HBCU Swingman Classic, held July 12, placed a s...

Democrats approve rules for likely Harris nomination

(CNN) – Democrats on Wednesday adopted the rules the party will use to choose their presidential nominee, with voting to officially nominate Kamala Harris likely to begin Aug. 1.That would be less than two weeks after President Joe Biden ended his ca...