2017-08-20 17:14
When Reince Priebus was the chair of the Republican National Committee, he’d occasionally make an effort to reach out to African-American voters. Especially after the 2012 election, Pr… Read More
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2017-08-20 17:04
Progressives aren’t the only people who have harshly criticized President Donald Trump for delivering two controversial statements following the racially charged protest in Charlottesv… Read More
2017-08-20 17:01
The recent deadly events in Charlottesville expose – if further evidence were needed – the increasingly sectarian nature of American politics. Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old anti… Read More
2017-08-20 16:57
Since the president of the United States cast his lot in with white supremacists in his #NotAllNazis moment this week, the nation’s military service chiefs have responded with full-thr… Read More
2017-08-20 16:54
Eric Brown had already seen the footage of the torches, the fire, the fights. The wreckage of Charlottesville days before was still fresh in his memory when he turned on his television on Tu… Read More
2017-08-20 16:49
Confederate monuments have once again become focal points for protests and unrest following a violent white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville. Most of the controversy has centered… Read More
2017-08-20 16:42
How you see race in the United States can depend a lot on your own background. President Donald Trump’s various responses to clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters i… Read More
2017-08-20 16:36
The NAACP, the nation’s oldest social justice organization, released this statement following the removal of Senior White House Strategist and known white supremacist Steve Bannon from… Read More
2017-08-16 13:56
With all the attention on the white nationalist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, let’s not forget Uncle Sam’s curious comforting of treasonous Confederates. While places such… Read More
2017-08-16 13:51
The debate about Confederate statues in Dallas intensified on Monday as a group made up of predominantly African Americans called for the monuments to remain standing. Several cities across… Read More
2017-08-16 13:48
In an overnight operation, workers removed Baltimore’s high-profile statues linked to the Confederacy, using cranes and trucks to haul away monuments that honored Robert E. Lee, Stonew… Read More
2017-08-16 13:45
When Simone Askew was in fifth grade, she saw military cadets march in formation across the field at an Army vs. Navy football game. At that time she didn’t have a concept of what mili… Read More
2017-08-16 13:39
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are reviving calls to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol following the violence at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. The “Unite… Read More
2017-08-16 13:36
Georgia local election officials on Monday reversed a decision to close polling places in mostly African-American precincts after critics sued them over the closures and said the changes wou… Read More
2017-08-16 13:18
Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement Tuesday after President Trump once again sought to… Read More
2017-08-16 13:14
The town that’s described as the oldest continuously-existing African-American city in the United States is celebrating its 130th birthday. Celebrations in Eatonville, Florida, kick of… Read More
2017-08-16 13:10
A Philadelphia firefighter has apologized for an apparently racist photo making light of the protests that turned violent over the weekend in Virginia. Philadelphia firefighter John Deluisi… Read More
2017-08-15 15:32
Possessed of some kind of strange atavistic power, statues of long dead but definitely not forgotten figures drive emotions still, and some to violence. So it is in Charlottesville, Virginia… Read More
2017-08-15 15:28
James Baldwin once said that to be black in America is to live in a constant state of rage. Rage, not just about modern expressions of inequality, but about its roots and persistence. Rage a… Read More
2017-08-15 15:26
“Trust black women,” a few dozen protesters shouted during a Saturday morning speech from Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Evans—a white Democrat. They had assembled… Read More
2017-08-15 15:19
The morning after white supremacists and neo-Nazis sparked violent clashes in Virginia, the Rev. Titus Roberson delivered a 45-minute sermon to his historically black church here. He urged t… Read More
2017-08-15 15:15
The Republican Party entered the political scene as the party of “free soil, free labor, and free men.” When Republican Abraham Lincoln captured the presidency, white Southerners… Read More
2017-08-15 15:13
Today, national and even international press are paying attention to racists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia. I, for one, am shocked that this story has yet to get old in this country… Read More
2017-08-15 15:11
The election of Donald Trump and the actions of his young administration have spotlighted the importance of facts. Since President Trump’s inauguration, truth and honest analysis have… Read More
2017-08-15 15:08
President Donald Trump’s examination on race is not over, not by a long shot. Trump finally bent to intense pressure and called out white supremacist groups on Monday, as the fallout f… Read More
2017-08-14 18:21
On Saturday, white supremacists marched on Charlottesville to defend the honor of men who fought for their right to keep dark-skinned people as chattel. That same day, in the same city, soci… Read More
2017-08-14 18:18
In America, more frequently than any other race of people, white people kill white people. In fact, Caucasians have a lengthy history of victimizing and killing one another in their communit… Read More
2017-08-14 18:16
It took President Donald Trump less than an hour to criticize Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier for resigning Monday from the White House’s American Manufacturing Council. Meanwhile, it’… Read More
2017-08-14 18:12
Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement Monday after President Trump met with Attorney Gene… Read More
2017-08-14 18:08
Joseph Gaines was sitting on his porch in the Charlton-Pollard section of Beaumont, Texas, on a recent evening in June, sipping beer and chatting with some of his neighbors about the NBA pla… Read More
2017-08-14 18:04
he United States is in a tailspin. White supremacists are on the march – and have left a trail of blood and destruction in their wake. A march in Charlottesville, Virginia, filled with… Read More
2017-08-14 15:29
Announcing his support for a bill to drastically reduce legal immigration into the United States, President Donald Trump made an appeal to two segments of the electorate. African Americans a… Read More
2017-08-14 15:05
On Saturday, white supremacists violently attacked protesters marching against them in Charlottesville. A 20-year-old man, James Alex Fields Jr., allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of peo… Read More
2017-08-14 15:02
To be an American is a gift and a privilege, a status that many outside our borders aspire to. But the problem with the definition of “American” is that it almost always seems to… Read More
2017-08-12 21:41
Chokehold: a maneuver in which a person’s neck is tightly gripped in a way that restrains breathing. A person left in a chokehold for more than a few seconds can die. The former police… Read More
2017-08-12 21:29
After eight years with a black man in the White House, the left still has no idea how to talk about African American politicians. Nowhere is this clearer than the ongoing conversation around… Read More
2017-08-12 21:03
The Navy recognized a 102-year-old World War II veteran Thursday by inaugurating a new barracks in his name, a rare honor for a living recipient. From his wheelchair, retired Chief Steward A… Read More
2017-08-12 20:51
Growing up, Shaylan Clark watched as family after family packed up their cars and left her close-knit neighborhood in Lynch, Ky., to find work elsewhere after the coal jobs dried up. Not muc… Read More
2017-08-12 20:46
As images began pouring out from violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, a familiar symbol showed up in an odd place: The Detroit Red Wings logo, slightly modified, on signs held… Read More
2017-08-12 20:38
On Aug. 9, 2014, Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown. A young black boy was killed, made into a corpse for the threat he was perceived to be but never actually was. He was imagined to be a ra… Read More
2017-08-12 20:32
As Neo-Nazis and sundry racist organizations march in Charlottesville, Virginia, emboldened last night by the silence and false equivocation of a president they helped elect into office, we… Read More
2017-08-12 20:22
At least one person was reportedly killed and several others injured when a car sped into a crowd of people who were protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday… Read More
2017-08-10 19:17
President Trump has managed what few others could achieve, giving activists on both sides of the Black Lives Matter-Blue Lives Matter divide something to agree on. In his remarks to law enfo… Read More
2017-08-10 19:14
A Washington police officer will face no charges for fatally shooting an unarmed black motorcyclist who rammed his cruiser after a high-speed chase, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday. The S… Read More
2017-08-10 19:08
Last week, the Department of Justice announced a new initiative to investigate discrimination against white students in university admissions. This is a disturbing step backward. Critical pr… Read More
2017-08-10 19:02
Affirmative action is back on the table for further examination. The Trump administration is making some noise about investigating bias in admissions at high-ranked universities. There is a… Read More
2017-08-10 18:26
Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, pushed unfounded theories about then-President Barack Obama’s upbringing and called then… Read More
2017-08-10 15:50
For Black unionists, labor reforms, like those in education, law enforcement and politics, are more rhetoric than reality. They must understand that reform emanates from privileged conversat… Read More
2017-08-10 15:41
The racial disparity between black and white heart attack patients has narrowed more than ever thanks to vast improvements in care for African Americans, a new report reveals. Experts warn m… Read More
2017-08-10 15:36
African American Income Disparities has gained widespread attention over the last decade in many publications. The root of the problem of income disparities may be solved by creating an earl… Read More
2017-08-10 14:51
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday distanced herself from her comment earlier this year about the nation’s historically black colleges and universities being pioneers of scho… Read More
2017-08-10 14:27
Gentrification. A term coined during the 1960s, it’s a concept that’s become hotly contested in recent years, described by Webster’s dictionary as “the process of ren… Read More
2017-08-10 14:22
The day that an unarmed, black 18-year-old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by officer Darren Wilson, setting off a series of violent clashes with law enforcement, this predominantly… Read More
2017-08-10 13:51
The story of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, is the story of how a small black city fights from vanishing, or rather, from being vanished away, and the black women who were recently installed to… Read More
2017-08-10 13:18
Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the following statement Wednesday in response to Jeff Sessions’s s… Read More
2017-08-09 15:54
If we all get out of this mess alive, someone one day should build a statue of Ari Berman for working to death the story of how the franchise is under assault from so many directions. His la… Read More
2017-08-09 15:52
When Jesse Jackson ran for president during the 1980s, as when I ran in 2004, there were progressives in America just like there are today. Those progressives were well meaning individuals a… Read More
2017-08-09 15:50
Three years later, on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s inexcusable death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, it is challenging to contemplate the United States of 2017. So… Read More
2017-08-09 15:41
With barely seven months into the Trump White House, already there are rumblings about the 2020 presidential race. On the Republican side, politicians are waging a shadow campaign, smelling… Read More
2017-08-09 15:38
Black Americans are not to blame for Hillary Clinton’s defeat last November. However, it is true that many black progressive activists know they made a mistake by not voting for Clinto… Read More
2017-08-09 15:36
In a small room down the hall in the Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Johnny J. Hollis Jr., of Montgomery, joined about two dozen people as they listened one recent afternoon to Don… Read More
2017-08-09 15:29
The Trump administration cares no more about Asian-American enrollment at Harvard than it does about protecting black and Hispanic workers from an influx of immigrants. What it wants is to k… Read More
2017-08-08 18:48
Last Sunday, August 6th, marked the 52nd anniversary of one of the United States’ most important pieces of legislation in history, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. When it comes to… Read More
2017-08-08 18:45
Danielle Outlaw, a 19-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department who started as a police explorer when she was in high school, will serve as Portland’s next chief, only the third ou… Read More
2017-08-08 18:43
When President Donald Trump met with leaders from historically Black colleges and universities in February, it sparked a backlash. Students and alumni criticized the decision of HBCU preside… Read More
2017-08-08 18:39
Well that’s settled. Let’s all welcome Jay Cutler to Miami. Then let’s do something else: Get real. The search for a new Miami Dolphins quarterback was not about Colin Kaep… Read More
2017-08-08 18:12
The question came as a shock to Dorothy Reeves: Would she be willing to donate her husband’s brain for research? She knew dementia would steadily take Levi Reeves’ memories of th… Read More
2017-08-08 18:10
#BlackGirlMagic. #BlackGirlsRock. #BlackExcellence. These hashtags have been trending heavily in social media over the past few months due to the incredible strides that people of color, esp… Read More
2017-08-08 16:00
The question came as a shock to Dorothy Reeves: Would she be willing to donate her husband’s brain for research? She knew dementia would steadily take Levi Reeves’ memories of th… Read More
2017-08-08 15:57
Yesterday, in Husted v A. Philip Randolph Institute, the U.S. Justice Department filed a brief in a critically important case about whether the National Voter Registration Act (NVR… Read More
2017-08-07 18:32
In a small room down the hall in the Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, about two dozen people listened one recent afternoon as Donald Solomon rattled off ailments ravaging African-Am… Read More
2017-08-07 18:29
Does the nation still need affirmative action? Here is the big picture. According to Education Department statistics, there has been no dramatic change since the Supreme Court found in 2003… Read More
2017-08-07 18:24
Voting is seen as one of the most sacred rights bestowed to an American citizen. That right has been challenged or taken for granted, however, to an extent that less than half of all that co… Read More
2017-08-07 16:26
With great fanfare, President Donald Trump vowed to out-do former President Barack Obama in supporting the nation’s historically black colleges when he signed an executive order in Feb… Read More
2017-08-07 16:23
An African-American State Department staff member who has been an operative for both the Republican and Democratic national committees has been appointed to a position with the Peace Corps… Read More
2017-08-07 16:21
I didn’t vote for President Trump, but I must give him and Attorney General Jeff Sessions their due. Thanks to reports the White House is encouraging the Department of Justice to inves… Read More
2017-08-07 16:18
Two years before Donald Trump became president, he tweeted, “Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for gener… Read More
2017-08-07 14:51
Travel advisories warn you to carefully consider visiting certain places. Reasons typically range from severe weather to government instability, from civil war to terrorism. The US State Dep… Read More
2017-08-04 20:31
It’s a menu unlike any other. Or, paradoxically, it’s a menu too much like any other, where economics determines the value of the listed commodities. Except these are not commodi… Read More
2017-08-04 19:04
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on July 31 this year, just days before the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report for July is released on Friday. While white women&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-08-04 18:51
During World War II, 19-year-old Frank Stevenson migrated from New Orleans, La., to Richmond, Calif., where he secured work at a Ford plant. Unable to find a place to live in the city’… Read More
2017-08-04 18:39
President Trump’s Justice Department has hardly been worthy of its name. It has retreated from meaningful police reform, argued on behalf of state laws that suppress minority voting ri… Read More
2017-08-04 18:37
Mississippi civil rights leader and NAACP icon Medgar Evers said those words over 50 years ago about the fight for voting rights. He believed, like many activists, that voting enabled dignit… Read More
2017-08-04 18:34
The NAACP, the country’s original and largest social justice organization denounces the U.S. Department of Justice’s plans to investigate and sue higher education institutions wh… Read More
2017-08-04 18:31
After the 2012 election, the leadership of the Republican Party (including one Reince Priebus) became convinced that in a country that is becoming steadily more diverse, if it didn’t f… Read More
2017-08-04 18:29
While NFL owners have made Colin Kaepernick sweat it out, there still exists a decent possibility that the quarterback, believed by many to be blackballed by the league for his refusal last… Read More
2017-08-04 18:26
Black leaders in South Carolina are condemning gubernatorial candidate Catherine Templeton’s remarks that she is “proud of the Confederacy.” “I don’t think she… Read More
2017-08-04 15:45
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has stepped up its political engagement as its Trump-era membership has swelled, is getting behind a campaign to end Florida’s felon disenfran… Read More
2017-07-28 20:48
The fiancee of a 25-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Chicago police last year is suing the department and the two officers involved. Police say Joshua Beal’s death in 2016 oc… Read More
2017-07-28 20:45
Mark Warner was hovering over the counter of handguns, about midway through the morning shift at Blue Ridge Arsenal, the black-owned gun store in Fairfax County where he’s worked for t… Read More
2017-07-28 20:38
Thomas Wheeler, who has been leading the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, informed staffers there Thursday that he would be leaving the post, according to two sources familiar w… Read More
2017-07-27 21:09
If you’re trying to appeal to black consumers without a black voice in the room, you’re taking the wrong approach. Across studies and articles detailing ways to reach out to Afri… Read More
2017-07-27 20:02
Stung by criticism that its “Better Deal” agenda ignores black voters, African American members of Congress strongly defended the party’s latest pitch to woo white working… Read More
2017-07-27 19:59
Many Historically Black Colleges & Universities were founded as Normal Schools, focused on teacher education, or A&M or A&T Schools, focused on agriculture, technical and mechani… Read More
2017-07-27 19:57
Youngstown, Ohio, is a go-to destination for a certain type of political outreach and reporting. Bolstered by its identification as quintessentially blue collar in a Bruce Springsteen song… Read More
2017-07-27 19:54
Wall Street’s top bosses have pledged for years to boost diversity in their ranks. But the number of black people at some of the biggest U.S. banks is going in reverse. At JPMorgan Cha… Read More
2017-07-27 19:51
The only sounds were those of muffled drums, the shuffling of feet and the gentle sobs of some of the estimated 20,000 onlookers. The women and children wore all white. The men dressed in bl… Read More
2017-07-27 19:48
I have been following the career woes of Colin Kaepernick quite closely these past few months. I have been incensed (and actually outraged) at the number of prominent Black American sports f… Read More
2017-07-26 21:22
A new study says African-American adults are facing more harassment online than other races and ethnicities in the United States. A recently released Pew Research Center survey says 25 perce… Read More
2017-07-26 21:19
The NAACP, the country’s original and largest social justice organization and Airbnb, the world’s leading hospitality company, today launched a landmark partnership that will hel… Read More
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