The Suicide Numbers Nobody in My Community Wants to Say Out Loud
Black Americans’ suicide death rate has climbed 53% in a decade, with young Black men bearing the sharpest edge of the crisis — and Black veterans face nearly double the PTSD rate of their white counterparts. Marcus Hart on why this crisis stays hidden and what actually moves the needle.
The Government Lost a $23 Billion Case. Most People Still Haven’t Heard About It.
A federal court just forced the Department of Education to honor the largest class-action settlement against the U.S. government in history — $23 billion in student debt relief for roughly 450,000 borrowers. Here’s why that’s an accountability story, not a partisan one.
Milwaukee’s Crime Numbers Are Actually Good News. Here’s Why Nobody’s Celebrating.
Milwaukee’s homicide rate is down 30% this year and city leaders are crediting relationship-driven prevention work over policing alone — with five Milwaukee-tied commutation hearings this month showing what happens when reform gets paired with results.
A Fatwa, a Stabbing, and the Verdict That Just Redefined What Counts as Terrorism in America
A federal jury this week convicted Hadi Matar on terrorism charges connected to his 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie, and while the verdict itself was close to expected, the case underneath it deserves more attention than a single news cycle usually gives it. The facts, as prosecutors laid them out and the jury […]
Work Stopped Being the Container. Now What Holds a Man Together?
Somewhere in the last decade, work quietly stopped being what it used to be for men — the fixed container that held everything else in place — and started becoming something more like a moving platform you have to keep rebalancing on. That shift, more than any single headline about masculinity trends or grooming routines, […]
The Conference Circuit Quietly Building What Black Men’s Mental Health Care Actually Needs
Every July, the culture runs its familiar cycle: a hashtag, a handful of op-eds, a wave of “Black men need to talk about their mental health” commentary, and then, by August, silence again until next year’s awareness push. I’ve written versions of that critique myself. But something different has been building this year that deserves […]
Twelve Names, One Board, and Wisconsin’s Quiet Test of Redemption
There’s a hearing happening in Madison on August 21 that most of the country will never hear about, and that’s exactly why UNJ is covering it. Wisconsin’s Commutation Advisory Board will convene to review twelve applications for commutation — a form of executive clemency that can shorten or modify a criminal sentence — with five […]
Blanche’s Nomination Just Became a Referendum on Who Gets Immunity
When two of Trump’s own Senate allies balk at his pick for attorney general, the story isn’t loyalty — it’s an $1.8 billion fund that could pay Jan. 6 defendants while everyone else foots the bill.
300,000 Haitians Just Lost Their Legal Status. Here’s What Actually Changed.
The Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitians and rolled out a rule letting asylum cases skip straight to deportation court. This is a due-process story before it’s a partisan one.
The Senate Just Confirmed an Intelligence Chief Who Won’t Answer a Yes-or-No Question.
Jay Clayton was confirmed as Director of National Intelligence on a straight party-line vote, after refusing under oath to say plainly that Trump lost the 2020 election. That’s not a gotcha question. It’s the whole job.