2016-02-05 18:51
The Obama administration on Thursday highlighted initiatives in housing, education, the workforce, and health care designed to help foster a better economic environment for African-Americans… Read More
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2016-02-05 18:48
American schools are hotbeds for racial discrimination, according to a preliminary report from a group of United Nations experts. The U.N.’s Working Group of Experts on People of Afric… Read More
2016-02-05 18:22
One hundred and fifteen years ago, George H. White took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives—to say goodbye. A black Republican elected in 1896 by North Carolina’s F… Read More
2016-02-05 18:16
Columnist and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King recently wrote that Black History Month should not begin and end with lessons of American slavery. This is exactly right but for reasons… Read More
2016-02-05 18:10
Former president Bill Clinton is scheduled to headline a rally in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday night aimed at firing up African American voters, a key constituency in the state’s upcom… Read More
2016-02-03 16:53
A more fervent wave of gentrification than in years past is changing urban areas across the United States, spurring some community advocates to organize to protect black history in their cor… Read More
2016-02-03 16:13
In celebration of the theme, “Black History Month is EveryDay”, and in honor of STEM Diversity, Open Government TV and HBCU Forever Foundation are pleased to announce the formati… Read More
2016-02-03 16:09
With the Democratic primary here just four weeks away, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders have ramped up efforts to win the backing of the state’s large… Read More
2016-02-02 15:46
At some point in the near future, Republicans will need more of the minority vote to win the presidency. While in 2016 they may get by with white voters alone, every year that strategy becom… Read More
2016-02-02 15:36
In June 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the 24-year-old firebrand chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, channeled the deepening anger over unabated racial violence against bla… Read More
2016-02-02 15:29
The discussion of diversity in Hollywood, or the lack thereof has been at a fever pitch since the nominations for the Oscar awards were released. This announcement by the Academy Awards was… Read More
2016-02-01 15:39
Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is spoiling for an upset of Hillary Clinton in Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses Monday, and a key factor could be whether he taps into the Hawke… Read More
2016-02-01 15:15
For many Americans, the name “Black Panthers” brings to mind young, stone-faced black men in berets and black leather coats and carrying rifles. Those images were either exhilara… Read More
2016-02-01 14:57
Dr. Bill Spriggs – As we reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we think about African-Americans as agents of history. Well-documented gaps in unemployment rates, earnings, povert… Read More
2016-02-01 14:53
In 1903, W.?E.?B. Du Bois, the leading scholar of the first half of the 20th century, defined the urgency of black social responsibility in his famous essay “The Talented Tenth”… Read More
2016-02-01 02:45
The study, just published in the Journal of Urban Economics by economists from Marquette, Texas Christian and Georgia State University, identified Mortgage Loan Originators, or MLOs, as part… Read More
2016-02-01 02:37
As A legal proposition, it’s difficult to prove that a government policy was devised with the deliberate intent of racial discrimination. But make no mistake: North Carolina’s hi… Read More
2016-02-01 02:33
According to reports, both the Federal Communications Commission and Charter Communications are being sued for $10 billion in federal court by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios and t… Read More
2016-02-01 02:23
As you might expect, Thursday evening’s Republican primary debate offered its fair share of rhetoric and fear-mongering. There was, though, one moment of clarity and even compassion: R… Read More
2016-01-30 17:46
When candidates arrive in Iowa and New Hampshire over the next week in a furious last-minute campaign blitz, observers will watch both primaries for hints into what’s moving voters. Po… Read More
2016-01-30 17:44
As the nation celebrates Black History Month, America has much work to do, and a long way to go in doing right by Black people and bringing true equality to a nation that preaches it, yet ne… Read More
2016-01-30 17:33
These are the words of a grieving mother, Panzy Edwards, who I met on the South Side of Chicago, one of America’s most iconic black neighbourhoods. It’s a violent place – a… Read More
2016-01-30 17:24
The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave… Read More
2016-01-29 17:16
Down in Williamsburg, Va., a bell rests behind the First Baptist Church. It’s been decades since churchgoers and passersby have heard it peal. Come February, it will ring once more. &l&hell…Read More
2016-01-29 16:57
A new report (en español) on preschool-to-third-grade, or P-3, alignment from the Center for American Progress examines the extent to which race and socioeconomic status affect a chil… Read More
2016-01-29 16:55
One of the most memorable moments of the 2014 campaign was a meeting between a group of reporters and Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky Democrat who was running for the U.S. Senate. Grim… Read More
2016-01-29 16:49
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched its next step in pursuit of racial equity for the nation, an unprecedented Truth, Racial Healing &Transformation (TRHT) enterprise that will help com… Read More
2016-01-29 16:37
It was a dream job, the type of assignment that could make or break the career of an ambitious executive with an eye toward the top. “It was my first big promotion,” says Bernard… Read More
2016-01-29 15:58
Decades before Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party she was years ahead of her time. So why… Read More
2016-01-29 15:50
The great Nigerian singer-activist Fela Kuti once sang, “Water No Get Enemy”—a position many Flint residents might disagree with. Now that their water has been deemed unusa… Read More
2016-01-29 15:24
While wearing a seat belt while driving is the law for all Florida motorists, black drivers in the state are ticketed nearly twice as often as whites for seat belt violations, according to a… Read More
2016-01-25 21:33
Even without miracles, Sen. Bernie Sanders could be the next American president. But miracles would help. The Independent/Democrat/democratic socialist from Vermont, by way of Brooklyn, coul… Read More
2016-01-25 21:26
Thirty-five percent of registered voters said digital media will be their most important method for learning about presidential candidates this year, according to a new study from the Intera… Read More
2016-01-25 21:13
On Monday, residents of North Carolina are taking the state to court, arguing that North Carolina legislators designed a new voter ID law to stifle growing minority turnout that threatened t… Read More
2016-01-25 19:50
As Chicago State University senior Charles Preston plans his future, he’s contending with a unique variable most other college students will never face: the possibility that his school… Read More
2016-01-25 19:45
A group of black Republicans endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, saying the Republican front-runner is the best candidate to “free black communities” from Democrats. “Black Am… Read More
2016-01-25 19:41
Environmental racism is often an afterthought, even for those who want to fix our race-based ills and protect black and brown lives. Now, the water crisis gripping Flint, Michigan, is shinin… Read More
2016-01-25 19:36
The U.S. has been officially recognizing Black History Month for 40 years, but it remains a contentious subject among both black and white Americans. Some whites have pushed back with calls… Read More
2016-01-25 19:32
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are now arguing about race, and like many such arguments in campaigns, it has nothing to do with any substantive difference between them on policy issues… Read More
2016-01-25 19:30
For some Christians, support for the Black Lives Matter movement is a no-brainer. After all, Jesus opposed violence, opposed the taking of life and opposed racial distinctions. As the apostl… Read More
2016-01-22 16:15
This year began in the Triangle with a particularly sad event. A crowd gathered at a Chapel Hill church for an Emancipation Day prayer service in memory of 14-month-old Maleah Williams. The… Read More
2008-08-15 16:33
– In recognition of her outstanding work as a civic leader, public administrator, and civil rights activist, Melanie L. Campbell was presented the Althea T. L. Simmons Social Action Aw… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On Monday night, college football will crown a new champion. In the process, a lot of money will be made. No matter who wins, the University of Alabama’s Southeastern Conference and Cl… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Researchers have concluded that Black college students rely on “grit” to get ahead, which means they view their college experience with determination and a strong sense of mental… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Vanessa Westley is a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department. She is also a single, black mother with an 18-year-old son. And with the recent police shootings of young, black men li… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Morning sun poured through a window on a recent Tuesday, casting light on a jumble of boxes, books and bins on the floor of Evelyn Murray’s new apartment. With help from a Portland non… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day courting African-American voters in South Carolina, laying the groundwork for next month’s consequential primary in… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Black children in Flint are being poisoned in their homes by toxic drinking water. Black children in Detroit are being poisoned in their public schools by mold spores in the air and fecal ma… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Raynard Jackson – In many ways, like Job in the Bible, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me (Job 3:25 King James… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
For more than half a century, African-American voters have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party and its candidates for office, especially in presidential elections. The party’… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On March 7, 1965, Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. joined arm-in-arm with other clergy and community leaders nationwide for a march that would change the course of civil rights in… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University’s campus in Washington. His employer, Google, had sent him there to cultivate future Sili… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’ve been in a confusing haze for a few days, drifting between the headlines #OregonUnderAttack and #BlackLivesMatter peaceful unarmed protestors nationwide being thrown in jail, beate… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Black people have always had a strong affinity for music. Soon after our forefathers were let off the slave ships and sold to plantations we started singing. Much of that was developed in th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Increasing numbers of grandmothers across the United States are raising their grandchildren, many of them in poverty and grappling with a public assistance system not designed to meet their… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Much research has been conducted in recent years about the barriers black students face in finding college success on predominantly white campuses. They struggle with underrepresentation, so… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In a crowded foyer at the Capitol Hilton in downtown Washington, a press conference set to kick off a series of meetings for the U.S. Conference of Mayors quickly shifted to issues of race a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In a time when the median net worth for White households is 10+ times that of their Black and Latino peers, the racial wealth gap is wide and predicted to widen in the future. But a new repo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Flint does not look much like the rest of the state of Michigan, or even the average American city its size. More than four in ten of its residents live in poverty. A majority of them are Af… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
While millions of people across the United States and throughout the world will continue to affirm, discuss, or respond in various ways to the last State of Union by America’s first Pr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A budget plan stuffed with familiar proposals to cut across a wide swath of the federal budget breezed through the House Budget Committee on Wednesday, but its sharp cuts to health care cove… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A federal prosecutor won’t reopen a criminal civil rights investigation into three white Pittsburgh police officers who were successfully sued by a young black man for wrongful arrest… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Pastor Dr. R. B. Holmes, whose leadership against hazing and the infamous “stand your ground laws”, has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the National Baptist Convent… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One thing you have to give conservative Republicans: They have developed a laser-like focus to accomplish their goals of winning back the White House no matter how solidly they trample on th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 d… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
With the money made from college sports increasing every year, the way colleges treat their athletes has become controversial. That’s because college sports is a tremendously lucrative… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs an affirmative action case that’s sparked controversial debate over whether African-American students can succeed at elite universities, a new study sh… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have to admit that it took a day before I could sit down and write about the thoroughgoing bag-job that was the official investigation into the summary execution-by-cop of Tamir Rice, a 12… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The North Carolina Supreme Court, in a 4-3 vote, recently upheld the state’s redistricting map in a lawsuit alleging that the map discriminates against African American voters. The pla… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Every year, the president presents his version of what was accomplished the prior year and a vision for the country in the coming year. As is customary, White House staff invites a small gro… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Fox News commentator Stacey Dash dismissed the outrage over the lack of African-American Oscar nominees as “ludicrous.” Dash, an African-American actress and contributor to the n… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On a recent, chilly Sunday morning, children ranging in age from 4 to 6 waited with their parents in the cafeteria of a Brooklyn school. Each wore a name tag. The kids chatted cheerfully (in… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A top African-American congressman is calling for the formation of a House select committee to investigate some of the police officer-involved shootings that have triggered controversies and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
African-American students feel less emotionally prepared for college than white students do, and they’re also more likely to keep their worries to themselves, according to the results… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last summer, when news anchor Joy-Ann Reid’s show was removed from the lineup at MSNBC and the Rev. Al Sharpton’s “Politics Nation” was removed from the station&rsquo&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
While meeting with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register on Wednesday, Jeb Bush was asked about whether or not there was a federal role in mediating tension between police and minor… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A drive down Dr Martin Luther King Drive in St Louis changed Melvin White’s life. Roaming the city, he noticed for the first time that the street named after his hero was reduced to du… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By the time of his death at the hands of an assassin’s bullet in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had shifted much of the focus of his activism to the issue of economic inequality. H… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today in El Paso, Texas, Acting U.S. Secretary John King will kick off his “Opportunity Across America” tour to discuss how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) will build on pr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last week and the celebration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day today bring to mind questions about the public health impact of our… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a historical figure every school child knows, one of the few from American history sculpted into a monument on the Mall. Yet much of his activism is misund… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
New research from Marquette University found evidence of discrimination against African Americans in the market for mortgage loans. The effect of being African American on getting a response… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Unions must mobilize to defeat racism because it destroys solidarity and brutalizes union members, the demographics of working people are changing rapidly and morality demands action. But mo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Daequan* came to the New York City-based Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) only 11 days after leaving prison. He was 19 years old, had spent nearly a year incarcerated, and there wer… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On July 26, 1948, Missouri’s first and only president, Harry S. Truman, issued Executive Order 9981: an order that required “equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In 2005, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, began an experiment that would last five years. One by one, they brought 164 study parti&s&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina knows what it’s like being poor, and he’s using his political clout as a senator from an early primary state to ensure that the issues… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, Americans of different races aren’t neighbours – they don’t go to the s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Rep. G.K. Butterfield’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton is noteworthy not just because he is the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, but also because the black lawmaker’s… Read More
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