2017-05-19 14:59
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III “…The history of the (President) of (The United States) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment… Read More
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2017-05-19 14:56
It’s time to dispense, once and for all, with the old narrative that the “good” Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and early ’60s was replaced by the “bad&rdquo&hell…Read More
2017-05-19 14:50
Older white Americans are nearly twice as likely as African-Americans to say they’ve saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs… Read More
2017-05-19 14:48
Imagine sitting in your home with your spouse and children. The police knock at the door. When you answer, they demand that you let them in so that they can search your home for drugs. Knowi… Read More
2017-05-18 19:52
As Democrats lashed out at the administration of President Donald Trump and demand the appointment of an independent special prosecutor to investigate the firing of FBI Director James Comey… Read More
2017-05-18 19:48
School administrators in Portsmouth, Virginia, are investigating an incident involving signs briefly placed over drinking fountains in Churchland High School. A photo of the signs, which rea… Read More
2017-05-18 15:53
We have a farming tradition in this country, a tradition that spans all races and communities. One need only drive around the city to see numerous community and private gardens in every neig… Read More
2017-05-18 15:40
A new study from the Sentencing Project found that inmates serving life or virtual life (50-plus years) sentences in the United States are predominantly and disproportionately African Americ… Read More
2017-05-18 15:38
One of the largest Blackowned media companies recently announced its expansion of offerings to the American consumer, with its eye on promoting Black culture. Urban One, formerly known as Ra… Read More
2017-05-18 15:22
A white police officer was found not guilty on Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 2016 shooting death of an unarmed black man About 100 demonstrators gathered near the courthouse where a j… Read More
2017-05-18 14:54
On Monday, May 15th, after four long years of struggle, our Moral Movement in North Carolina won a major victory against the strategy of Republican extremists who are determined to subvert d… Read More
2017-05-18 14:49
An email that today circulated the Alabama Legislature made a reference that seemed to describe African-Americans as “monkeys,” members of the Legislative Black Caucus said in a… Read More
2017-05-18 14:40
David A. Clarke, the Milwaukee County sheriff who once claimed that ISIS and Black Lives Matter activists were forming an alliance to destroy America, said on a radio show Wednesday that he… Read More
2017-05-17 20:39
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is expected to sign a bill next week which could clear the way for Morgan State University to secure more state funding in support of an expanded institutional… Read More
2017-05-17 18:40
Debate over a bill that protects Confederate monuments has scratched open a raw nerve for many Louisiana lawmakers. House Bill 71, which would make it more difficult to remove Confederate st… Read More
2017-05-17 18:35
In a rare display of bipartisanship in Congress, the United States House of Representatives voted to establish a commission to examine 400 years of African American history. House bill H.R… Read More
2017-05-17 18:32
The TSU Riot of 1967 was a formative experience for many Houstonians swept up in the vast social changes of the ’60s. Fifty years later, though, a lack of historical markers or public… Read More
2017-05-17 18:28
Seven members of an African American family in upstate New York are lucky to be alive after what police say was a racially motivated arson on Mother’s Day. “It’s very distu… Read More
2017-05-17 18:24
The Georgia governor’s race presents a golden opportunity and a profound moment of truth for Democrats across the country. With House minority leader Stacey Abrams’s recent annou… Read More
2017-05-17 16:40
Early Wednesday, just hours after Louisiana’s Republican-dominated House advanced a bill prohibiting the removal of virtually any plaque, monument, memorial or statue connected to a wa… Read More
2017-05-17 16:27
By most conservative estimates, the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities are on life support. A combination of gaps in federal and state funding, alumni contributions… Read More
2017-05-17 14:50
Republican unease with President Trump is building, and if it snowballs, the White House could suffer significant political damage. Asked about the mood among conservatives, GOP strategist R… Read More
2017-05-16 20:28
As a Texas native, I have witnessed many dark days in the fight to ensure voting rights for all people. The 2013 Supreme Court decision, Shelby County v. Holder, overturned portions of the V… Read More
2017-05-16 20:26
The Trump administration has made school choice, vouchers in particular, a cornerstone of its education agenda. This has generated lots of interest in how school voucher programs across the… Read More
2017-05-16 20:19
Philadelphia has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo & Co. of overcharging more than 1,000 black and Latino homebuyers for loans to buy homes in the city since 2004. Citing six… Read More
2017-05-16 19:35
Just in time to distract from the 24-hour Russia-all-the-time news cycle is President Trump’s newly announced Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, an entity headed by Vice Pr… Read More
2017-05-16 18:44
The Louisiana House approved legislation Monday aimed at blocking the removal of Confederate monuments, causing the 24-member Legislative Black Caucus to walk out. A largely party-line 65-31… Read More
2017-05-16 18:29
Black clergy, standing in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, declared that President Trump is not living up to his promise of being the “greatest champion” for the nation’s Af… Read More
2017-05-16 18:22
African americans lament that the cops are never there when you need them—that “911 is a joke,” as the Public Enemy song goes—and then they complain that their commun… Read More
2017-05-16 18:14
For African-Americans, the isolation of living in a racially segregated neighborhood may lead to an important health issue: higher blood pressure. A study published Monday in JAMA Internal M… Read More
2017-05-15 16:23
African-American teenage twins attending a Massachusetts charter school are being punished for wearing their hair in braids. Their parents say the school’s policy around how students a… Read More
2017-05-15 16:18
When Lesley Green was a little girl in Houston in the 1960s — just a few decades after the routine lynchings of blacks in the South — her father would go off to work a late-night… Read More
2017-05-15 16:14
It was apparent immediately after the 2016 election that one factor feeding the Trump win was a drop in African-American turnout from 2012, particularly in states like Michigan that went to… Read More
2017-05-15 16:06
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III – “This is a great plan. I actually think it will get even better. This is a repeal and replace of Obamacare. Make no mistake about it…” Pres… Read More
2017-05-15 16:01
A person’s mental well-being is just as important to their health as their physical and spiritual well-being, and African-Americans may be more likely to face mental illness. A study c… Read More
2017-05-15 15:59
On the corner of 7th and P Streets in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood is a boxy building, with the words “Bread For The City” stenciled across the brick facade. This is a non-prof… Read More
2017-05-15 15:57
In Georgia, a Democratic lawmaker planning a run for governor promises to confront President Trump and what she calls the “fascists” surrounding him. In Maryland, a former presid… Read More
2017-05-15 15:48
NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order creating a commission on voter fraud. The recent executive o… Read More
2017-05-15 15:45
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina’s voter identification law that a lower court said targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision… Read More
2017-05-12 14:32
For generations, African-American parents have borne a special burden in mentoring their teenage children as they begin driving, having to say, be calm and extra polite when stopped by the p… Read More
2017-05-12 14:29
“I am innocent.” These three words caught my attention as I watched “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” a six-part documentary series that aired on SpikeTV throughout t… Read More
2017-05-12 14:27
The cost of college has spiraled beyond the reach of many families and is leaving millions of students and graduates with debts that are keeping them from realizing their financial goals. An… Read More
2017-05-12 14:20
The United States has a troubled history of voter suppression. Prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many states used policies such as poll taxes and literacy tests to preve… Read More
2017-05-12 14:15
The Trump administration has made it clear that it plans to limit environmental protections and reverse course on the stronger regulations achieved under President Obama out of concern for t… Read More
2017-05-12 14:11
Last month, New Orleans began the long-overdue process of removing four statues honoring the lost, and immoral, Confederate cause. This week, we continue the job. Getting here wasn’t e… Read More
2017-05-12 14:07
After claiming that as many as 5 million people voted illegally in the November election, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a commission to address voter fr… Read More
2017-05-12 14:01
Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the following statement Thursday in response to alarming reports that Pr… Read More
2017-05-11 14:58
Principal Macquline King-Morris stepped out of the way of two lines of students heading to the Courtenay Language Arts Center gym. But the stream of elementary-school kids rerouted themselve… Read More
2017-05-11 14:39
A White House statement suggesting that construction funding for historically black colleges and universities might be unconstitutional reveals a fundamental misunderstanding that the school… Read More
2017-05-11 14:26
The lack of racial representation in the U.S. Congress has gained widespread public attention in recent years. In 2015, I conducted the first racial census of the legislative workforce in mo… Read More
2017-05-11 14:21
“Teachers of color bring benefits to classrooms beyond content knowledge and pedagogy.” This is what a recent study from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organi… Read More
2017-05-11 14:06
Now more than 100 days since the inauguration of President Donald Trump and a Republican-dominated Congress, the “shift of power and priorities in Washington” has brought a &ldqu&hell…Read More
2017-05-11 14:04
BET Networks, the country’s largest cable network for African American audiences, is moving its headquarters from Washington to New York, ending a nearly 40-year relationship with its… Read More
2017-05-11 13:57
There is a national crisis in American higher education, and it threatens to exacerbate the most pressing challenges facing our nation. Consider this sobering fact: For every 10 African-Amer… Read More
2017-05-10 20:25
By intimidation and the veiled or open threat of violence, a motley band of white supremacists, Confederate sympathizers and self-appointed advocates of Southern heritage are endeavoring to… Read More
2017-05-10 20:21
The firearms industry is no longer a man’s world. Women are buying guns in a big way; including more African-American women. Firearms instructors report an up-tick in the number of bla… Read More
2017-05-10 20:17
Addressing one of the largest civil rights groups in the country recently, Tom Perez, the new chairman of the the DNC, broke out a tried and true tactic Democrats like: effusive praise of th… Read More
2017-05-10 20:14
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faced an auditorium of jeering Bethune-Cookman University graduates Wednesday as she gave a commencement address that many students and graduates said she was… Read More
2017-05-09 21:30
The son of a minister, Ohene Asare grew up poor. His family immigrated from Ghana when he was 8 and settled down in West Bridgewater, Mass., a town 30 miles south of Boston, where he was one… Read More
2017-05-09 21:27
It was 7 a.m. last June when six sheriff’s deputies stormed into the Manning family home in Canton, Miss., according to a new lawsuit. They demanded that the Mannings sign witness stat… Read More
2017-05-09 21:24
Imagine a community smelling so awful that residents can’t go outside or even hang clothes on a line to dry. Even worse, imagine living where it rains pig urine and feces on a regular… Read More
2017-05-09 21:07
rior to the 2016 election, Eddie Lee Holloway Jr., a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin, which implemented a strict voter-ID law for the first time in 2016. H… Read More
2017-05-09 20:28
President Trump is reiterating his “unwavering support” for historically black colleges and universities, though I remain unconvinced that he has any real interest in black peopl… Read More
2017-05-09 20:09
When President Trump signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill on Friday, he zeroed in on a tiny sliver of it, suggesting that he might disregard $20 million in funding for loan subsidies and oth… Read More
2017-05-08 21:12
Black people in a racially segregated county in Mississippi are living under a permanent state of siege, subjected to repeated unlawful and humiliating searches at police roadblocks, at pede… Read More
2017-05-08 20:16
From Thurgood Marshall to Oprah Winfrey, the nation’s historically black colleges and universities have educated generations of African American pioneers and professionals — doct… Read More
2017-05-08 20:13
A good 10 years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case, the Supreme Court in 1944 struck down another pernicious plank of formalized racism: the whites-onl… Read More
2017-05-08 20:03
Allegations of student and staff intimidation at Bethune-Cookman University have the NAACP Florida State Conference demanding the ouster of school leaders. The organization is calling for th… Read More
2017-05-08 19:39
Deaths per 100,000 people for African and White Americans. Last Friday the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released a report titled “Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in… Read More
2017-05-08 14:13
Ieshia Evans calmly faced down police officers in riot gear at a Baton Rouge march. snatched down a Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse. Widely published photographs of these a… Read More
2017-05-05 16:16
The movement for racial equity in the medical cannabis trade appears to be going bipartisan—last week, Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan, ordered the state to conduct a… Read More
2017-05-05 16:01
As soon as the House approved the GOP health care bill on Thursday, Democrats were working on using it against Republicans in next year’s midterm elections. “They have this vote… Read More
2017-05-05 15:54
The fight to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is just getting started. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan deserve significant credit for getting their alternative… Read More
2017-05-04 15:34
Legislative Republicans gave themselves pats on the back this session for funding the School Recognition Program, which rewards teachers primarily in “A” and “B” scho… Read More
2017-05-04 15:31
Recently Wells Fargo bank’s Office of Corporate Communications responded to our series of articles by stating that African American newspapers were included in their “Open Letter… Read More
2017-05-04 15:26
The Dallas suburb where a White police officer shot and killed a Black teenager as he left a party has a population that’s just 20 percent White but a police department that’s 80… Read More
2017-05-04 15:24
Racist fliers have popped up throughout the University of Texas at Austin campus, following an incident in which a black man reportedly stabbed several students, killing one of them. On Mond… Read More
2017-05-04 15:22
The Vietnamese control the nail industry; the Koreans control the major distribution channel for Black hair care products; Jewish people control the music industry; the Indians/Pakistanis co… Read More
2017-05-04 15:19
While the Adam Jones incident at Fenway Park on Monday certainly won’t help attract more African-Americans to aspire to become Major League Baseball players, a variety of economic fact… Read More
2017-05-04 15:17
On April 29, tens of thousands of demonstrators converged on to Washington, D.C. for the People’s Climate March, to challenge what they viewed as an attack by the Trump administration… Read More
2017-05-03 21:06
Women and minorities are locked out of some of Wall Street’s most lucrative positions, managing just 1.1 percent of the $71.4 trillion of the industry’s assets, according to a re… Read More
2017-05-03 21:04
Black and Latino parents whose children’s teachers are mostly white are more likely to believe schools are “not really trying” to educate students of color than those with… Read More
2017-05-03 20:53
One positive that emerged from the 2007–2008 credit crisis—and its subsequent recession—was a spark in entrepreneurship. Nearly one of every 10 U.S. companies operating tod… Read More
2017-05-03 20:44
In a piece of moderately good news for cities where the bursting of the housing bubble of the last decade devastated local real estate values and the municipal tax base, the Supreme Court ha… Read More
2017-05-03 19:53
When Babul Khan lost two of his four sons in an inferno at Gadani shipbreaking yard on November 1, 2016, it was a tragedy but it wasn’t a surprise. Like all the 26 workers who were kil… Read More
2017-05-03 19:48
In October of 1966, the Black Panther Party announced their official platform. One of their key demands was to put an end to police brutality and the killing of black people by police. Sound… Read More
2017-05-03 19:41
The Groveland Four finally received a little justice last week. Nearly seven decades after a white woman in Central Florida leveled a false charge of rape, the state Legislature apologized f… Read More
2017-05-03 19:28
Can someone tell me what, in 2017, possesses anyone to use the N-word? I honestly don’t know. I tend to believe those who speak that arcane word of pure hatred hate their own lives. Th… Read More
2017-05-03 19:24
In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America’s housing stock. Author Richard Rot… Read More
2017-05-03 17:27
The National Urban League’s State of Black America 2017 report, issued Tuesday, notes that the average African American household brings in about half as much income as a white househo… Read More
2017-05-03 13:51
When black activists and voters protest police shootings of African Americans, their conservative critics often respond that what African Americans should really be protesting is black-on-bl… Read More
2017-05-03 13:49
Much attention has been given to white evangelical congregations and parachurch groups in studies of so-called “political churches” and politically active Christians. While studi… Read More
2017-05-03 13:42
It’s hard enough to be running for governor as a Democrat in Georgia. It’s harder still to do it as an African American. But to do it as an African American woman is almost like… Read More
2017-05-03 13:37
When it comes to the overall health of black Americans, there’s good news and bad news, according to a report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday… Read More
2017-05-02 18:09
Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of f… Read More
2017-05-02 17:24
While this year’s annual State of Black America report from the National Urban League focuses as usual on areas of progress (education, healthcare and economic well-being) and regress… Read More
2017-05-02 17:17
The overflow crowd at Busboys and Poets was black and white and shades in between, yuppies in chinos and activists in message T-shirts, bubbling with excitement to hear from the special gues… Read More
2017-05-02 17:15
A group focused on training African-Americans to properly use guns said they’re seeing a bump in membership. The National African-American Gun Association is calling themselves a new a… Read More
2017-05-02 17:10
Scores of African-American young people are stressed out from the traumas they encounter at home and in the streets of their communities, making it a challenge to focus on academics. One tee… Read More
2017-05-02 17:08
“Names such as Jamar Clark and Philando Castile have risen to celebrity status around the country and the world, (bringing attention to) police brutality and systemic injustice and the… Read More
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