https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/jobs-report-strong-if-you-ignore-the-gap 2026-09-05T10:26:08-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-jobs-report-same-gap-2026_f1b49903-b467-4012-9078-6d012f28bf20.png?v=1788625568 The Jobs Report Is Strong... If You Ignore the Gap Black worker between signs showing 6.0 percent Black unemployment and 3.7 percent White unemployment. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/post-office-almost-became-a-voting-test 2026-09-08T08:50:07-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-mail-ballot-barrier-2026_f97a6362-9810-4af8-a6bd-6bdd5cd65389.png?v=1788879007 The Post Office Almost Became a Voting Test Black voter mailing a ballot as a judge’s gavel breaks a wall of barcode requirements and red tape. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/flock-cameras-tracked-everybody 2026-09-05T10:28:58-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-flock-surveillance-2026_0f88e4b4-8411-4874-ab5b-3f624743b65c.png?v=1788625738 They Tracked Everybody. Now Everybody Is Mad. Black driver surrounded by license-plate cameras feeding travel data into a giant database eye. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/the-voter-purge-had-a-database-september-2026 2026-09-06T08:21:43-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-save-database-2026-09-06_01175c9d-a1e1-4a7c-bd56-8e3f728255a5.png?v=1788704503 The Voter Purge Had a Database! The Court Hit Pause Hand-drawn editorial illustration of a Black voter, Social Security records flowing into a voter-check database, and a judge blocking a questioned stamp. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/missouri-map-emanuel-cleaver-district-september-2026 2026-09-06T08:20:26-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-missouri-map-2026-09-06.png?v=1788704426 Missouri’s Map Fight Was Really About Emanuel Cleaver’s District Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Black Kansas City residents holding their neighborhood together as political hands cut and redraw a congressional map. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/memphis-storm-mutual-aid-grid-september-2026 2026-09-06T08:20:37-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-memphis-grid-2026-09-06_187c59c4-62e5-4c49-9bc9-26439aa3bfc9.png?v=1788704437 Memphis Lost Power. The Neighborhood Became the Grid. Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Black Memphis neighbors distributing food, water and generator power after a major storm outage. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/record-labor-day-gas-prices-war-wallet-2026 2026-09-06T08:20:46-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-gas-war-wallet-2026-09-06_96383a6d-894f-4b95-98d3-dde53eef71a6.png?v=1788704446 Record Labor Day Gas Prices: The War Found Your Wallet Hand-drawn editorial illustration of a Black family at a gas pump linked by pipeline to oil tankers, warships and household costs. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/postal-service-mail-ballot-rule-election-gatekeeper 2026-09-08T08:49:24-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/x-files-mail-ballot-rule-2026-09-07_b3244dbd-a3d6-4d9b-b078-3d42286dadd6.png?v=1788878964 Why the Postal Service Shouldn’t Be the Ballot Bouncer Hand-drawn editorial illustration of a Black woman voter facing a postal sorting machine acting like a ballot referee. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/affordable-housing-poorest-renters-empty-units 2026-09-08T08:48:58-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/x-files-affordable-housing-2026-09-07_256c7466-9452-4dcd-ad63-2dfaef690501.png?v=1788878938 Affordable Housing That Poor People Still Can’t Afford Hand-drawn editorial illustration of a Black mother and son locked out of an apartment building with empty units. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/haitian-tps-west-indian-day-parade-brooklyn 2026-09-07T07:41:43-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/x-files-haitian-parade-2026-09-07.png?v=1788788503 When the Parade Becomes Protest: Brooklyn’s Haitian Community Marches On Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Haitian American Carnival marchers carrying Haitian flags in Brooklyn. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/the-campaign-needed-a-villain-muslim-americans-2026-09-08 2026-09-08T08:47:52-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-campaign-needed-villain-2026-09-08.png?v=1788878872 The Campaign Needed a Villain, So It Picked Muslim Americans Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Muslim American voters being targeted by campaign rhetoric. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/police-loved-surveillance-until-the-camera-pointed-back-2026-09-08 2026-09-08T08:48:23-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-camera-pointed-back-2026-09-08.png?v=1788878903 Police Loved Surveillance Until the Camera Pointed Back Hand-drawn editorial illustration of smart-glasses surveillance cameras turning back toward a police control room. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/lonnie-bunch-retiring-smithsonian-history-fight 2026-09-11T08:51:50-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-history-fight-lonnie-bunch-2026-09-09_402633a1-a53e-406a-abd5-44663cf63174.png?v=1789138310 Lonnie Bunch Is Retiring While America Fights Over Who Gets to Tell Its History Black editorial illustration of a museum historian carrying archives as a giant eraser approaches exhibits of Black history. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/clean-water-not-a-constitutional-right-fifth-circuit-jackson 2026-09-12T09:01:31-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-clean-water-not-a-right-2026-09-09.png?v=1789225291 Clean Water Is Not a Constitutional Right, the Fifth Circuit Says Black editorial illustration of Jackson residents carrying water beside a cracked courthouse and contaminated pipe. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/fear-got-a-blank-check-25-years-after-911 2026-09-11T08:40:17-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-fear-got-a-blank-check-2026-09-11_04ae9cee-7045-420b-b6e3-1c893414627a.png?v=1789137617 Fear Got a Blank Check: What America Built After 9/11 Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial poster connecting the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to surveillance and expanded state power. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/jail-first-hearing-maybe-bond-hearings 2026-09-11T08:49:11-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-jail-first-hearing-maybe-2026-09-11.png?v=1789138151 Jail First, Hearing Maybe: Why Your Freedom Now Depends on the Court Map Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial poster showing a Black immigrant family behind bars as a judge's gavel breaks one open. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/ben-shelton-us-open-final-54-years-arthur-ashe 2026-09-13T08:31:14-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/54-years-between-finals-2026-09-13-v3_82b95fba-3f2d-4b07-b0ff-7cde8eb79870.png?v=1789309874 54 Years Between Finals: Ben Shelton’s U.S. Open Breakthrough Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial poster reading 54 Years Between Finals, showing a Black tennis player and Arthur Ashe’s legacy. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/georgia-secret-ballot-ai-privacy-flaw 2026-09-15T10:13:47-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-georgia-ballot-privacy-2026-09-14_f4bb460c-1e02-4941-b71e-273a6d9ed485.png?v=1789488827 Georgia’s Secret Ballot Problem: AI Can Help Trace Votes Back to Voters Black editorial illustration showing Georgia ballot records being linked to voters with AI tools. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/trump-5000-dividend-congress-election-condition 2026-09-14T09:11:15-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/blackrallyx-trump-five-thousand-dividend-2026-09-14_b28e1804-16f0-4a1b-8830-8ed5c498962b.png?v=1789398675 Trump’s $5,000 Dividend Needs Congress and Comes With an Election Condition Black editorial illustration showing a proposed $5,000 payment dangling over a ballot box. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/dei-got-a-25-million-bill-accenture-settlement 2026-09-15T10:12:56-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/dei-got-25-million-bill_b2a4dbb7-c837-45c7-a932-8ad551c694b9.png?v=1789488776 DEI Got a $25 Million Bill: What the Accenture Settlement Really Signals Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial illustration showing a Black worker holding a $25 million invoice as a diversity office is dismantled. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/they-want-the-players-capped-college-sports-bill 2026-09-16T09:09:48-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/players-capped-college-sports-bill.png?v=1789571388 They Want the Players Capped: What the College Sports Bill Would Lock Into Law Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial illustration of Black college athletes pushing against a compensation ceiling while executives hold it down. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/they-couldnt-bomb-the-truth-16th-street-baptist 2026-09-16T09:14:13-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/couldnt-bomb-the-truth-birmingham_ff77e278-7313-49fd-a2c2-6b53e0acee01.png?v=1789571653 They Couldn't Bomb the Truth: 16th Street Baptist Church Opens a New Visitor Center Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial illustration of 16th Street Baptist Church and a new visitor center carrying the history forward. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/congress-built-it-they-gutted-it-mbda 2026-09-17T08:40:19-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/congress-built-it-they-gutted-it-mbda-blackrallyx-2026-09-17_68b3b8db-4c50-4833-867a-4abc4f1acebc.png?v=1789656019 Congress Built It. They Gutted It: The Fight Over the Minority Business Development Agency Hand-drawn editorial poster showing Black small-business owners watching desks and workers being removed from a congressionally created federal agency. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/housing-first-lost-court-hud-1-3-billion 2026-09-17T08:35:31-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/housing-first-lost-court-blackrallyx-2026-09-17_f6eaecb4-ada3-4272-b185-635633e21814.png?v=1789655731 Housing First Just Lost in Court: HUD Can Redirect $1.3 Billion Hand-drawn editorial poster showing Black families holding keys as a giant bureaucratic hand moves money from permanent homes toward temporary shelter beds. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/they-cut-the-teacher-pipeline 2026-09-18T06:35:17-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/they-cut-the-teacher-pipeline-2026-09-18_70cf5ece-4d7e-4d40-acdd-d2299cf22574.png?v=1789734917 They Cut the Teacher Pipeline. A Judge Finally Called It What It Was. Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial illustration of a Black teacher protecting a teacher-training pipeline from an anti-DEI funding cut. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/the-door-got-more-expensive 2026-09-18T06:44:11-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/the-door-got-more-expensive-2026-09-18_1fa90804-891c-436a-ab08-70417d9f1e3a.png?v=1789735451 The Door to Homeownership Just Got More Expensive Again Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X editorial illustration of a Black family reaching for a house key carrying a 6.95% mortgage-rate price tag. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/trump-revived-willie-horton-fear-playbook-north-carolina 2026-09-20T09:11:11-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/same-old-fear-playbook-2026-09-19_983308dc-0647-413b-a46a-a400ae510837.png?v=1789917071 Trump Revived the Willie Horton Fear Playbook in North Carolina Hand-drawn editorial poster showing a Black voter recognizing the recycled Willie Horton fear tactic at a campaign rally. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/badges-by-the-ballot-federal-agents-polling-places-lawsuit 2026-09-20T09:06:20-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/badges-by-the-ballot-featured.png?v=1789916780 Badges by the Ballot? Civil-Rights Groups Sue Over Federal-Agent Threats at Polls Hand-drawn BLACKRALLY X illustration of Black voters protected by a legal complaint from armed federal agents near a polling place. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/tesla-future-old-problem-black-workers-trial 2026-09-21T08:30:26-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/the-future-had-an-old-problem-2026-09-21.png?v=1790001026 Tesla’s Future Is on Trial Over an Old Problem Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Black Tesla factory workers and a blocked promotion ladder under the headline The Future Had an Old Problem. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/workday-ai-hiring-bias-class-action 2026-09-21T07:58:57-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/the-algorithm-said-no-2026-09-21_92ca8820-1853-4db5-81eb-544c524a4ae7.png?v=1789999137 When the Hiring Algorithm Says No, Who Owns the Bias? Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Black job applicants facing an automated hiring rejection gate under the headline The Algorithm Said No. https://blackrallyx.com/blogs/x-files/the-money-exists-release-it-community-lenders 2026-09-22T08:59:55-06:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0593/1270/1495/articles/the-money-exists-release-it-cdfi-2026-09-22.png?v=1790089195 The Money Exists. Treasury Just Hasn’t Released It. Hand-drawn editorial illustration of Black community business and health workers beneath locked federal funds and a September 30 deadline.