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Reverend Al Sharpton had talks with Target’s CEO about reinstating their DEI initiatives after a successful boycott of the company started by Pastor Jamal Bryant. The boycott’s goals have not yet been achieved. Click here to watch full video.
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With the 144th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns select Shedeur Sanders.“
Once projected to be the number one overall pick let’s take a look at Shedeur Sanders’ accomplishments in 2024 alone:
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The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the Six Triple Eight, will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a long-running campaign to recognize its efforts.
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was credited with solving a growing mail crisis during its stint in England and, upon its return, serving as a role model to generations of Black women who joined the military. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
After 50 years of preaching, Bishop T.D. Jakes is stepping down from his role as lead pastor of the viral megachurch, The Potter’s House, in Dallas, TX. This weekend, Jakes shocked church members when he announced his retirement from the position during Sunday’s morning service.
“Major moves take time. It may look like it was [sudden], but you don’t know what the background work was,” Jakes told his congregation. “I have seen too many men build something and stay so long that they kill what they built.” Read more at www.thegrio.com.
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A historical book and bible have been removed, there are concerns about the sit-in movement lunch counter being next. Click here to watch full video.
President Trump signed an executive order revoking a Biden-era program that gave hundreds of thousands of immigrants fleeing humanitarian crises from four countries legal entry into the America. NBC News White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor has the story of one couple facing the possibility of returning to the violence and instability they fled. Click here to watch full video.
He isn’t the only reason more Black Americans are choosing to live overseas, but there can be little doubt that the presidency of Donald Trump – and the culture war he catapulted to prominence – are major factors in the recent reignition of the trend known as “Blaxit.”
This blended word – combining Black and exit – first gained traction in 2016, the year Trump was first elected as president. The hashtag Blaxit channeled a growing conversation about leaving the U.S. for destinations friendlier to Black visitors and expats.
Several national media outlets picked up on it. USA TODAY spotlighted the trend and the factors fueling it in 2020, with a piece called Black Americans leave USA to escape racism, build lives abroad.
By then a record number of African Americans had left the U.S. during Trump’s first term in office, with some openly naming the president as a factor in the movement.
The New York Times posted about the phenomenon in 2024 with an article titled Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa.
More recently, actress KJ Smith sparked the interest of Fox News with remarks to a reporter at the NAACP Image Awards in February. Fox quoted Smith saying, “With the political climate that’s going on in the United States of America, there are places we can go. There are countries that are receiving us back — citizenship back — with open arms.”
Well-known columnist Jenice Armstrong put her spin on it with a trip to Ghana four days after Trump defeated VP Kamala Harris last November.
In speaking with Black Americans who’d moved to Ghana, “Over and over they told me that racism was a key factor in their decision to leave America,” Armstrong wrote in the first of several articles on the Blaxit wave.
How big is the trend?
Few data sources exist to pinpoint how big the migration is or may become. But we do know that tens of thousands of Black Americans left the country during Trump’s first term.
The Power Broker ballparked the trend using the U.S. Department of Defense Federal Voting Assistance Program Overseas Citizen Population Analysis. This report is released every other year, with 2022 being the most recent version.
Roughly 120,000 Black American adults were living abroad in 2020, an increase of nearly 50,000 or 70% over 2014 (the closest data year prior to Trump’s entry into the 2016 race in 2015). See graph below.
The bulk of that increase happened between 2016 (when Trump was elected) and 2020 (the final year of Trump 1.0), when the Black adult overseas population grew by about 46,000.
In addition, the surge was unique to Black citizens. From 2016 to 2020, the Black adult overseas population grew by 62% versus only 7% for non-Black Americans.
How many will leave during Trump 2.0
We won’t have official data on the four-year span of Trump’s second term until 2029.
Yet we do know that more and more Black Americans are exploring a major move. Google Trends shows that the number of searches related to moving to Africa or the Caribbean (among top destinations for Black expats) doubled in the five months following the 2024 election (compared to the five months prior).
Blaxit influencers and overseas Black expat groups are growing too. The Yarbros travel lifestyle channel has grown its YouTube subscriber base to 164,000. Blaxit and Blaxit Global have more than 69,000 subscribers combined. Roshida Dowe is at 47,000 on the video platform as she teaches others to live their best life abroad.
We may get more insight later than this year when the Defense Department drops its Overseas Citizen report for 2024.
Figure 1: Change in Black U.S. Citizens Living Overseas 2014 to 2022
Notes
Data in the graph above and table below are estimates based on data in the U.S. Department of Defense, Federal Voting Assistance Program, Overseas Citizen Population Analysis, Technical Report. The most recent version is for 2022 and was published in 2023. This report analyzes the size and level of participation in the 2022 General Election of non-military, voting-age U.S. citizens living abroad.
Table 1 : Change in Black U.S. Citizens Living Overseas
| 2014-2020 | 2016-2020 | ||||||||
| 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | # Growth | % Growth | # Growth | % Growth | |
| Low End | 52,971 | 55,642 | 59,221 | 100,183 | 66,403 | 47,212 | 89% | 44,541 | 80% |
| Middle Est. | 70,160 | 73,698 | 78,439 | 119,741 | 87,951 | 49,581 | 71% | 46,043 | 62% |
| High End | 87,349 | 91,754 | 97,657 | 139,298 | 109,499 | 51,949 | 59% | 47,544 | 52% |
With comments or questions, gypsy@powerbrokermagazine.com.
By Casey Albritton
A new ground-penetrating radar survey conducted near Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg has revealed additional graves on the site.
“I feel like my own history has been ignored, my history has been bulldozed and built over, and so for me, when I go out there, I feel connected to my past,” said Corey Givens Jr., St. Pete City Councilman.
For Givens Jr., the land around Tropicana Field is sacred. Read more at www.abcactionnews.com.
By Cora Quantum (AI)
The Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg and Orlando Health’s Bayfront Hospital are launching a new $1 million grant initiative aimed at addressing health disparities in South St. Petersburg.
The Healthy People 2025 grant program will fund up to four multi-sector collaborations, each eligible for up to $250,000. The goal is to support systemic changes in the social determinants of health, such as housing, education and economic opportunity.
The grant launch event is scheduled for Wednesday (April 23) from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Foundation’s Center for Health Equity, 2333 34th St. South. The event will include a Q&A session for interested applicants. Read more at www.stptecatalyst.com.
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Apr 22, 2025
Bernice A. King has never been one for protocol, especially when she has good intentions.
So, when she found herself in the Vatican on March 12, 2018, in a private, quiet moment with Pope Francis, the daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. asked him a question.
“I leaned in to ask him was there anything I could do for him,” Bernice King recalled.
The pontiff looked at her and whispered, “Pray for me.”
Continuing to break protocol, she asked if she could pray at that moment.
“Imagine that, a Protestant female minister asking to pray for the highest spiritual leader in the Catholic Church,” King recalled. Read more at www.flcourier.com.
