2017-06-14 12:56
Democracy for America endorsed Andrew Gillum in his campaign for Governor of Florida. The million-member national progressive organization, which raised $1.8 million for Bernie Sanders 2016… Read More
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2017-06-13 14:28
Growing up in a single-parent home, I learned at a very early age that life isn’t easy. My mother was a full-time student working to get her masters, worked a full-time job and still m… Read More
2017-06-13 14:26
The cost of college may be on the rise, but most still agree that it’s a sound investment. There are, in fact, a number of personal and societal benefits associated with getting a bach… Read More
2017-06-13 14:20
Members of Oregon’s NAACP want to ensure that people of color benefit from the state’s efforts to switch to a greener, more environmentally conscious economy. “Oregon has b… Read More
2017-06-13 14:13
Climate change will have the greatest impact on communities of color, who face the highest risks from toxic spills, hazardous air, and dirty drinking water. And yet, they’ve been large… Read More
2017-06-13 14:08
The National Museum of African American History and Culture museum was evacuated Monday evening after a suspicious package was found, authorities said. The package was found on the second fl… Read More
2017-06-13 14:03
Black community leaders and citizens want to know who invited out-of-town federal agents and informants into Albuquerque and how the decision was made to focus an undercover sting operation… Read More
2017-06-13 13:45
Philando Castile was calm and polite when an officer pulled him over for a broken taillight, a prosecutor said Monday, yet he still died in a barrage of gunfire. Castile “did what he w… Read More
2017-06-13 13:41
Should we allow states to decide whether black Americans may marry white Americans? Today, such an idea seems absurd. Most Americans believe that states shouldn’t be permitted to tramp… Read More
2017-06-12 15:30
The Arizona Confederate monuments controversy has risen once again. Two years ago, it was over the naming of the Jefferson Davis Highway in the Southeast Valley. Other cities across the coun… Read More
2017-06-12 15:02
Tim Ryan had been the United States chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers for about a week last year when five police officers in Dallas were killed by a sniper during a protest over police sho… Read More
2017-06-12 14:32
UNCF’s iconic, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” advertising campaign remains the gold-standard for shining light on the urgency of investing in Black colleges and uni… Read More
2017-06-12 14:26
Boston police chiefs are investigating a spoof video depicting one of its officers which has been slammed as racist by members of the community. The video appeared on social media last week… Read More
2017-06-12 14:22
Although alleged Kremlin connections may ultimately sink Trump’s Presidency, Rev. William Barber, II, contends that homegrown voter suppression poses a greater threat to U.S. democracy… Read More
2017-06-12 14:17
Overcoming bitter opposition from Republican lawmakers, Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia has largely rectified an enormous, archaic injustice: the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of… Read More
2017-06-12 14:13
A Georgia pastor is on a mission to raise awareness of suicide in the Black community and its connection to the church. How’s he doing it? Through a hunger strike. Church leader and Bl… Read More
2017-06-09 18:42
The Republican Party continues to miss the mark when it comes to engaging the Black community. For those Republicans, who fastidiously claim they don’t believe in “identity polit… Read More
2017-06-09 18:35
Austin, Ill., the community where I live, in the heart of the congressional district I represent, includes the zip code with the largest number of releases from the Illinois Department of Co… Read More
2017-06-09 18:31
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives America’s infrastructure a D+ grade. No doubt, if they focused on just the infrastructure serving majority African American communities, A… Read More
2017-06-09 18:00
A Chicago man was charged this week with misdemeanor battery after an apparent racially charged altercation caught on video. Video of part of the incident shows a white man spitting at a bla… Read More
2017-06-08 16:16
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a study that shows Americans in lower-income areas are more likely to become credit visible after receiving a hit to their credit score. The… Read More
2017-06-08 16:14
Amy Brotka of West Seneca, N.Y., worked in banking investment for 20 years, then her job disappeared in 2012 because the bank was dissolved. This gave her a chance to step back and rethink h… Read More
2017-06-08 16:06
At the Mall, we celebrate the story of freedom and equality in our museums and memorials, and it is here where Americans gather to petition their government and to debate issues of the day… Read More
2017-06-08 15:50
When he was running for President of the United States, “45” asked African-Americans what we had to lose by electing him. Embracing the most dystopian view of the African-America… Read More
2017-06-08 14:57
During a recent Republican convention in North Carolina, former Governor Pat McCrory (R-N.C.) said that he knew for a fact that “a lot of noncitizens” were voting in the state&rs&hell…Read More
2017-06-08 14:42
Citizens Trust Bank has had something to celebrate in its 95th year: continued relevance. As a gift of sorts for its nearly century-long existence as an institution in the black community, t… Read More
2017-06-08 14:29
Senate intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr shut down a line of questioning from California Sen. Kamala Harris at Wednesday’s high-profile hearing, admonishing her and other De… Read More
2017-06-07 13:56
Black troops are far more likely than their white comrades to face court martial or other forms of military punishment, according to a study to be released Wednesday. Black service members w… Read More
2017-06-06 18:24
The May jobs report confirms the labor market is strengthening, with the US unemployment rate hitting a 16-year low. Though wage gains were meager, the employment picture overall is looking… Read More
2017-06-06 18:21
The budget proposal recently released by the Trump administration should greatly concern anyone who believes that higher education should be widely accessible, equitable, and premised on act… Read More
2017-06-06 18:18
Minorities are facing possible “double jeopardy” when it comes to their health: getting both less effective treatment and more treatment that has little value to them. A new stud… Read More
2017-06-06 18:13
The phrase “reading is fundamental” is more than just a catchphrase; it’s a truism. According to data provided by the California State Department of Education and analyzed… Read More
2017-06-06 17:39
Fort Greely and Delta Junction celebrated the Alaska Highway’s 75th anniversary Saturday – and one of the soldiers who helped build it. Gov. Bill Walker and other state and local… Read More
2017-06-06 17:37
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams sparked excitement among many progressives around the country with her announcement over the weekend that she is running for governor. If Abrams, the Democrati… Read More
2017-06-06 17:34
A new study quantifies what many African-Americans already know, or at least suspect—cops are more discourteous in some communities than in others. What’s being called “the… Read More
2017-06-06 14:19
Recently the city of New Orleans removed several Confederate monuments from a prominent, downtown location. The decision to remove these memorials has touched off a debate throughout several… Read More
2017-06-06 14:14
I have chosen not to use the “N-word,” but I sometimes backslide. Just like what I’m willing to bet is the majority of Black men my age who laughed uncontrollably while wat… Read More
2017-06-06 14:11
A Georgia state representative who said the Ku Klux Klan “made a lot of people straighten up” and tried to force the state to formally recognize Robert E. Lee’s birthday an… Read More
2017-06-05 19:48
After visiting Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the journalist Ray Suarez observed that as much as it represented a separate military culture, with distinct rules and protocols, it was also a m… Read More
2017-06-05 19:45
Darryl Hill, hailed for integrating college football in his youth half a century ago, was a successful entrepreneur with no criminal record and plenty of capital when he applied for a licens… Read More
2017-06-05 19:42
African American and Latino parents see a lack of funding as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education, according to a newly released poll by the Leadership Conference on Civil an… Read More
2017-06-05 19:35
Cleo Smith just celebrated his 50th anniversary at work – one heavy with memories. During his first year as a city employee, he and 1,300 other black sanitation workers walked off the… Read More
2017-06-05 18:54
The Republican Party continues to miss the mark when it comes to engaging the Black community. For those Republicans, who fastidiously claim they don’t believe in “identity polit… Read More
2017-06-05 18:51
Few people openly admit to holding racist beliefs but many psychologists claim most of us are nonetheless unintentionally racist. We hold, what are called “implicit biases”. So w… Read More
2017-06-05 14:32
Jesus commands us to “…love one another” (John 13:34) and God has given us responsibility to care for His good creation (Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:15). The African Methodist… Read More
2017-06-05 14:31
In 2016, just 18 percent of homes for sale in the 30 largest U.S. metros were affordable for middle-class Hispanic families and 14 percent were affordable for African-American families, acco… Read More
2017-06-05 14:29
In the dozen years it has been on television, the fictional medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy” has garnered numerous awards. But the show’s biggest accomplishment may be… Read More
2017-06-05 14:27
A quiet but powerful march took place in Philadelphia last week, indicating a new direction in the faith-driven environmental justice movement in America. A coalition of climate activists an… Read More
2017-06-02 19:56
Unlike some, I am particularly laser focused on the increase of homelessness among people of color, particularly African Americans. As an African American female and from a community that is… Read More
2017-06-02 19:53
“Being black in America is tough,” Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star LeBron James said at a news conference in reaction to the N-word reportedly being sprayed on the gate of a… Read More
2017-06-02 19:49
The NAACP issued the following statement after a noose was found Wednesday, May 31, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. and after NBA star LeBr… Read More
2017-05-30 20:37
The special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District is the first major test of the Democratic resistance to President Trump. In one sense, the results of the first round in Ap… Read More
2017-05-30 20:35
Former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous, who served as a surrogate for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) during his 2016 presidential campaign, is expected to formally declare his candidacy for… Read More
2017-05-30 20:27
Elizabeth Meaders admits she’s a bit “eccentric.” It takes seeing the world a bit differently to live with some 50,000 pieces of historic African American items and memorab… Read More
2017-05-30 20:24
To those of us who remember him not as an icon but as a living human being, the reminder that today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the 35th president of the United States, John F… Read More
2017-05-30 20:15
t’s not surprising to anyone who has lived in or visited a major American metropolitan region that the nation’s cities tend to be organized in their own particular racial pattern… Read More
2017-05-30 20:07
The Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has been fired from the police department after an investigation concluded that he withheld details of his pas… Read More
2017-05-28 15:00
In recent years, residents and voters of the battleground state of Florida have faced their share of challenges — from the controversial presidential election of 2000 that required a v… Read More
2017-05-28 14:56
In the spring of 2014, the Army banned black women soldiers from wearing natural hairstyles like cornrows, even though those easy-care looks meant that some women could give up the scalp-dam… Read More
2017-05-28 14:53
It’s happening! The hounds have been unleashed, making this a peculiarly dangerous time to be black in America, once more, and still again. Take the public ‘lynching’ of Ri… Read More
2017-05-28 14:48
When President Woodrow Wilson called America to war in April 1917, his argument that “The world must be made safe for democracy” had a special resonance for one large group of U… Read More
2017-05-28 14:41
Talk about missing the point. An international journal devoted to politics and philosophy is apologizing for publishing an issue on the Black Lives Matter movement without a black author&rsq&hell…Read More
2017-05-28 14:37
The California Democratic Party African American Caucus is asking the state party for a formal apology to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and its members for what it called disrespect by a private s… Read More
2017-05-25 18:01
In the U.S. government’s great wealth-building machine, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the most important cog. The 30-year, fixed-rate single-family home mortgage that has made homeown… Read More
2017-05-25 17:32
There is an inexcusable and disheartening silence from white evangelical Christians over the unprovoked killing of Richard Collins III at the University of Maryland over the weekend. Collins… Read More
2017-05-25 17:27
Ben Carson, the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, faced an intense backlash on Wednesday for calling poverty “a state of mind.” Mr. Carson, who oversees a… Read More
2017-05-25 16:56
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Love the Poorly Educated… Read More
2017-05-25 15:11
The Class of 2017 is facing the strongest labor market in nearly 10 years. According to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Rockefeller Foundation, the unemployment ra… Read More
2017-05-25 15:09
Lynching is back in America’s headlines. On Saturday, an African American student, Richard Collins III, was stabbed and killed on the campus of the University of Maryland in what was w… Read More
2017-05-25 15:03
Last night, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin, and the law firm of Covington & Burling filed an amended complaint in their class-action lawsuit against the city o… Read More
2017-05-25 14:56
The American public education system should provide an equal opportunity for all students to receive a quality rigorous education – regardless of class, race or ethnicity. In direct op… Read More
2017-05-24 16:04
Black lawmakers in Mississippi are demanding the resignation of a white colleague who said Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments. Republican Rep. Karl Oliver… Read More
2017-05-24 15:53
There were moments when someone would say something ugly — a racist epithet, an ethnic slur — and we would all shake our heads in disgust and someone would offer, in a way consol… Read More
2017-05-24 14:51
A federal civil rights suit in Houston accuses Child Protective Services of discriminating against African-American children, saying they are likelier to be separated from their parents and… Read More
2017-05-24 14:30
This month marks the 63rd anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the misguided principle of “separate but equal” schools… Read More
2017-05-24 14:21
Summer internships are one important way that students can explore passions they want to pursue as a profession. They are exposed to a form of learning that goes beyond the books and may be… Read More
2017-05-24 14:16
Mistrust and alienation between black men and the police have become so entrenched that we need radical, sweeping change. The collective experience of black men in the criminal justice syste… Read More
2017-05-24 14:11
Don’t mourn Richard Collins III because he was due to graduate this week from Bowie State University or because he was recently commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States… Read More
2017-05-23 19:59
As Howard University and Internet giant Google launch a summer residency program to boost hiring of underrepresented minorities in the technology sector, a recent study suggests that the top… Read More
2017-05-23 19:44
Jacqueline Cooper, president of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), released the following statement on the Administration’s education priorities in the Fiscal Year 2018… Read More
2017-05-23 19:21
Mississippi is violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, a civil rights group alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit over school funding. The lawsuit fi… Read More
2017-05-23 19:19
A prominent figure in the civil rights movement believes Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election because she did not do enough to mobilize African American communities. Reverend Al Sh… Read More
2017-05-23 19:13
Sixty-three years ago this week, the United States Supreme Court shocked the nation by publicly stating what so many Americans already knew: that separate is inherently unequal. Through thei… Read More
2017-05-23 19:11
Growing up, Cosette Hampton experienced two different Chicagos. Until sixth grade, she lived in the Roseland neighborhood, but when her dad got a new job, the family moved to the wealthier E… Read More
2017-05-23 19:03
An entrepreneur and co-founder of the Black Founders has launched HBCU.vc, a new program to teach students at the nation’s black colleges and universities how to become tech investors… Read More
2017-05-23 18:55
A Mississippi lawmaker has apologized for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states. &ld&hell…Read More
2017-05-23 18:53
On Monday, the Supreme Court held that two gerrymanders passed by the North Carolina legislature were unconstitutional. All eight justices to hear the case—which was heard before Justi… Read More
2017-05-23 16:33
Celso Athayde watched closely as members of Congress lined up on April 2016 to vote on President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. Conscious of the national audience following the proceedi… Read More
2017-05-22 15:27
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that North Carolina illegally packed black voters into two voting districts. In a 5-3 ruling, the justices affirmed the decision of a lower court. That ruling… Read More
2017-05-22 15:10
Breaking away from the apolitical tenets of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X defiantly introduced a comprehensive vision for Black American liberation and unity in his 1964 “Ballot or th… Read More
2017-05-22 14:51
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a crucial provision of the Voting Rights Act four years ago it was a heavy blow in a long war over voting rights. Now, even a hard fought victory for… Read More
2017-05-22 14:48
When we hear about the state of African Americans, we often hear stories about the crime in Chicago or the urban blight in cities like Detroit. However, we don’t frequently hear about… Read More
2017-05-22 14:46
This is how Rep. Terri Sewell puts it: “After more than 250 years of debate, five constitutional amendments, decades of protest, and a handful of monumental Supreme Court decisions, th… Read More
2017-05-22 14:15
The largest depressant on American growth is the credit crunch for African-American households and businesses. As co-founder of the 14th National Black Business Month with Frederick E. Jorda… Read More
2017-05-22 14:11
Donald Trump supporters reportedly threatened to “lynch” an African-American politician who called for the US President to be impeached. Democrat representative Al Green said he… Read More
2017-05-22 14:08
A white student at the University of Maryland was charged on Sunday in the fatal stabbing a black college student in what the authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. Official… Read More
2017-05-22 14:06
NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization after his contract expires this summer, officials said Frida… Read More
2017-05-19 15:22
A new organization based in Chicago, the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), aims to support groups pushing for structural change in our economy by targeting the “financial e… Read More
2017-05-19 15:18
White nationalists (so-called “racists”) believe that democracy and a class society are complementary not contradictory because they see themselves as those for whom democracy wa… Read More
2017-05-19 15:05
The NAACP released the following statement regarding the DOJ’s decision to promote the use of mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes. The decision by US Attorney General Jeff Sess… Read More
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