Tabla de contenidos para June 13, 2025 en ScoopUSA Digital

The day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was running for President, appeared at a Cleveland event and said instead of talking about politics, he had to speak about the “mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.” He said: “The victims of the violence are Black and White, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings love and need. No one—no matter where he lives or what he does—can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on. Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? His assassin’s…

ELLIOTTSBURG, PA, June 10, 2025 – Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding emphasized the critical role Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits play in supporting Pennsylvania’s AG Industry at People’s Provisions, a Perry County grocer that accepts SNAP benefits and sources entirely from local farms. The event included local business leaders, farmers, and community members who amplified real concerns about the impacts that proposed federal cuts to SNAP funding will have on Pennsylvania families, farmers, and grocery businesses if Congress follows through on the current version of H.R. 1. Governor Josh Shapiro has made it clear that Pennsylvania cannot backfill these costs. “Radical reductions in SNAP would hurt not only the two million people who receive benefits and may be temporarily struggling, but the Pennsylvania farm families, and families of those in…

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop protests against his immigration crackdown isn’t the first time an elected U.S. official has sent troops to thwart unrest over civil rights. But National Guard troops are typically deployed — for a variety of emergencies and natural disasters — with the permission of governors in responding states. Trump, a Republican, sent about 1,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles despite the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats. Confrontations began Friday when dozens of protesters gathered outside a federal detention center demanding the release of more than 40 people arrested by federal immigration authorities across Los Angeles as part of Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Trump said he had to…

Levi Watkins Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins University. This took place only a mere seven months after Watkins completed his surgical education at Johns Hopkins. Today, millions of patients everywhere use this device, which detects irregular heartbeats and corrects them. Watkins was known to be a determined, passionate, and caring individual. He used this compassion to fuel his movement for minorities within the medical field. Today, people still use his wisdom and ideas based on civil rights activism to make medical schools more representative of the diversity of the human race. Vanderbilt University even…

June 10, 2025—The Souls Shot Portrait Project connects artists with the families and friends of victims of gun violence to create portraits that memorialize the lives lost and tragically altered due to gun violence. This traveling exhibit has been on display in the lobby of the Pennsylvania State Library since June 4th and will be open to the public until June 30th to view at no cost. Today, Lt. Governor Austin Davis and the six Governor’s Advisory Commissions celebrated the opening of the Souls Shot Portrait Project exhibit at the Pennsylvania State Library to help commemorate Gun Violence Awareness Month. They were joined by surviving family members of gun violence victims, artists, and policymakers to remember the hundreds of Pennsylvanians lost each year to gun violence and continue the push…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Fisk University's bold experiment in women's gymnastics is coming to an end. The school has announced it is shuttering the program at the end of the 2026 season. Fisk made history in 2023 when it became the first historically Black college or university to launch a women's artistic gymnastics team. Fisk's ambitious move to start the program played a hand three years later in the athletic department choosing to discontinue it. Scheduling became challenging because gymnastics is the only sport at Fisk that does not compete against other HBCU schools, forcing the program to get creative and requiring the team to travel longer distances than the University's other sports. “While we are tremendously proud of the history our gymnastics team has made in just three years, we…