2017-05-02 17:06
In a dramatic turn of events, a former South Carolina police officer who has spent years fighting charges in a high-profile shooting of an unarmed black man is expected to plead guilty Tuesd… Read More
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2017-05-02 17:03
Black and Hispanic Americans continue to lag far behind whites economically — and their prospects look much worse under President Trump, according to a report to be released Tuesday by… Read More
2017-05-02 17:01
On Monday, the police department of Balch Springs, Texas, changed its account of the shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, who was killed by a police officer on Saturday. From the New York… Read More
2017-05-01 15:42
Toxic workplaces — where harassment, stereotyping and bullying occur — are driving away women and people of color, undercutting technology companies’ efforts to increase di… Read More
2017-05-01 15:35
Too often missing in discussions on the challenges facing African Americans is any focus on environmental justice, the idea that all people should enjoy a clean, healthy environment while be… Read More
2017-05-01 15:30
James Forman can be quite irritating. When he goes to the movies with his friends, he will invariably come out again muttering, “But where have all the black people gone?” &ldquo&hell…Read More
2017-05-01 15:21
The slim white guy thrice my height with stick legs, baby shoulders and huge pale hands passed me a check. “I hope you enjoyed everything!” he said with a half smirk. “I&rs&hell…Read More
2017-05-01 15:18
Had former president Barack Obama been, say, an actor, he would have been celebrated for becoming the highest-paid star in Hollywood. Box-office Barack!, the headlines would have shouted. Ha… Read More
2017-05-01 15:13
President Donald Trump has offered grand gestures, questionable policies, and a litany of promises to skeptical African Americans. He promised to rid inner cities of crime. He promised to in… Read More
2017-05-01 15:09
On Friday morning, the first day of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, Dwayne Williams was doing a little shopping. At Sig Sauer’s crowded booth, he chatted with a… Read More
2017-04-28 16:11
Of all the political spectacles of Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency, few could match the improbability of his meeting in the Oval Office in late February with nearly 100 preside… Read More
2017-04-28 16:08
Mental illness does not discriminate. African Americans share the same mental health issues as the rest of the population. Yet, mental health remains a taboo topic of discussion within the b… Read More
2017-04-28 16:05
Harvard University recently announced that its English majors will be required to take a course focusing on authors who have been marginalized for reasons including racism. That’s adde… Read More
2017-04-28 16:01
One day after an Associated Press report that House lawmakers unwittingly voted in favor of a resolution honoring the achievements of Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan… Read More
2017-04-28 15:56
A Salt Lake City-area woman running as a Democrat to unseat Utah Republican Rep. Mia Love next year could result in Utah’s first congressional race where both the Republican and Democr… Read More
2017-04-28 14:44
As President Trump approaches his 100th day in office, the Congressional Black Caucus is asking the country to “stay woke.” In a list provided exclusively to NBC News, the caucus… Read More
2017-04-28 14:41
President Donald Trump’s liaison to the black community, the former “Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault, says African-American activists aren’t trying hard enough to… Read More
2017-04-28 14:38
A South Carolina candidate for US Congress, who has been criticized for using the 2015 killings of nine black church members in a campaign advert, has said the removal of a Confederate monum… Read More
2017-04-27 14:33
Contrary to Donald Trump’s indiscriminate portrayal of African-Americans as “living in hell,” the black upper middle class is ascending the economic ladder at a faster rate… Read More
2017-04-27 14:30
A congressional caucus founded by three African-American women plans to present a report by the end of the year on how to solve the problem of missing black children nationwide. “We do… Read More
2017-04-27 14:28
I became heir to my parent’s financial mismanagement and generational debt. By the time I was conceived, my father and mother had not only transformed molehills of bills into mountains… Read More
2017-04-26 21:50
Children in America’s poorest communities have three times the risk of dying from child abuse before age 5 as children in the wealthiest neighborhoods, a new study finds. “We thi… Read More
2017-04-26 21:38
A good parent is not sure what to believe. On one side, doctors tell us vaccinations are safe and necessary for our children. They’ve been in existence for hundreds of years, most peop… Read More
2017-04-26 21:31
Former Fox News Channel anchor Bill O’Reilly, the man whose lofty ratings were responsible for the growth of the network, is no longer on the air. Revelations that $13 million had been… Read More
2017-04-26 21:18
One in nearly 4.8 million. That’s how many fraudulent votes North Carolina’s voter ID law would have stopped in the 2016 election had it not been halted by the US Fourth Circuit… Read More
2017-04-26 15:18
“Just get a bank loan.” That’s the simple financial advice that Chester Herbert’s white associates gave him when they saw his upholstery business had potential to be… Read More
2017-04-25 16:38
Do you ever feel like a fraud when it comes to the things you’ve achieved? You might be experiencing impostor phenomenon — and if you’re a college student of color, these f… Read More
2017-04-25 16:37
A new federal lawsuit claims Georgia illegally gerrymandered two state House districts by moving minority voters out of the districts of two vulnerable white Republican lawmakers. The suit… Read More
2017-04-25 16:31
All around the country, communities of color are subject to environmental injustice. Oil refineries, power plants and extraction sites spew toxic gases and metals into the air and drinking w… Read More
2017-04-25 16:27
African-American physicians earn 15 percent less than White physicians—an average of $262,000 compared to $303,000—according to Medscape’s 2017 Physicians Compensation Repo… Read More
2017-04-25 16:19
Corey Stewart’s Confederate-centric bid for Virginia governor has cost him the endorsement of a longtime political ally and prompted four of the five Republicans who serve with him on… Read More
2017-04-25 13:55
New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle about the future of the memorials, which critics dee… Read More
2017-04-25 13:52
When a video made headlines last month appearing to show an Asian store manager pinning down a black customer he had accused of shoplifting, Hyepin Im’s heart sank. “I said, &lsq&hell…Read More
2017-04-25 13:49
From the 1890s to the 1930s in Macon, Georgia, a black handyman named Leo Moss was a pioneer of black dolls. He painted doll faces black with chimney soot and had his wife design their cloth… Read More
2017-04-25 13:45
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have launched a tour of black colleges and universities around the country, hoping to mobilize students, listen to their concerns and encourage more… Read More
2017-04-24 15:24
Hola mis amores!” Melissa Hernandez, 35, calls out as she pulls her car up in a narrow alley between a muddy vacant lot and a tangle of brambles in Chicago’s North Lawndale neigh… Read More
2017-04-24 15:17
When we study racial inequality, we tend to consider factors that affect people while they are awake. Differential access to safe neighborhoods with good schools, decent jobs and unbalanced… Read More
2017-04-24 15:13
Homeownership is a goal shared among all people, regardless of race or ethnicity, and remains the main driver of wealth creation for the majority of households in the United States. That is… Read More
2017-04-24 15:12
Earth Day comes right before National Volunteer Week, an annual celebration of North American volunteerism in late April. This fortuitous timing gives environmental nonprofits an opportunity… Read More
2017-04-24 15:04
When Jewish couple Mikey Franklin and Sonya Shpilyuk hung a “Black Lives Matter” banner from the window of their condominium, they hoped to voice their solidarity with the social… Read More
2017-04-24 14:23
Soon after the start of his first term as a black lawmaker in the fifth-whitest state in the country, State Representative Ras Smith brought his hoodie to work. For the eleventh year in a ro… Read More
2017-04-24 14:16
Reparations for African-Americans were once a boutique demand from fringe groups of black nationalists. Not that the concept lacks pedigree: In 1865, Union Gen. William Sherman set aside tho… Read More
2017-04-21 20:07
Despite the Trump administration’s disdain for renewable energies and promotion of fossil fuels like coal, the current revolution in clean energy is showing no signs of slowing down. T… Read More
2017-04-21 20:04
At the very beginning of the new administration, and probably in a moment of hubris, Omarosa Manigault, an aide to President Donald Trump, promised that the first newspaper interview with th… Read More
2017-04-21 20:02
A freshly introduced bill could make more African Americans TV and radio stations owners in the U.S. G.K. Butterfield, D-North Carolina and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is spo… Read More
2017-04-21 20:00
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “take care of our African-American people.” Trump also asked black Americans, “What the hell they [had] to l… Read More
2017-04-21 19:58
A judicial panel ruled Thursday that Texas House redistricting in 2011 violated the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act, the third time this year that a federal court has found the R… Read More
2017-04-21 19:56
There’s a box of odious and discredited myths that hold that African-Americans have less wealth and higher rates of poverty, joblessness and other negative social indicators because we… Read More
2017-04-21 19:47
The Florida lawmaker under fire over racially inflammatory remarks toward his African-American colleagues has resigned, a spokeswoman for the Florida Senate Majority Office told CNN. The emb… Read More
2017-04-20 15:45
I started first grade at an all-black elementary school in Chester, Pa., a deeply segregated factory town near Philadelphia, in 1957 — three years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brow… Read More
2017-04-20 15:37
Among the many shameful legacies of racial discrimination and segregation in the United States is the fact that African Americans make up a disproportionate share of both those who are victi… Read More
2017-04-20 15:35
For 190 years, the Black Press has chronicled the spirit and resilience of the African-American community. “You can see it in the spirit of the process that we have [developed] in docu… Read More
2017-04-20 15:30
On a crisp morning in the struggling Bay Area city of Richmond, Calif., Doria Robinson prepares a community vegetable garden for an onslaught of teenagers who will arrive that afternoon. Bey… Read More
2017-04-20 14:51
Our nation’s international competitive position depends in part on the quality of higher education that it provides all its citizens. It is fortunate we have an array of higher educati… Read More
2017-04-20 14:13
Last year, White House economists predicted that low-income workers — those who make less than $20 an hour — face the highest probability of losing their jobs to robots. But peop… Read More
2017-04-20 14:08
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, then the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, was heavily criticized for kneeling instead of standing during the national anthem. The protest was on behalf of t… Read More
2017-04-20 14:05
A piece from New York Magazine’s Andrew Sullivan over the weekend ended with an old, well-worn trope: Asian-Americans, with their “solid two-parent family structures,” are… Read More
2017-04-19 15:50
Almost a century ago, racial covenants restricted people of color from purchasing their own homes in many areas. Having a roof over their heads was illegal just because they weren’t wh… Read More
2017-04-19 15:42
The mass exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural south to large urban areas across the United States was nothing more than great. During this Great Migration, almost half of t… Read More
2017-04-19 15:40
The employment prospects for African Americans showed little improvement in March, according to the Labor Department’s most recent jobs report. The labor force participation rate, whic… Read More
2017-04-19 15:37
Prowling the streets of Cleveland, 37-year-old Steve Stephens was on a mission that was utterly insane. “Found me somebody I’m going to kill, this guy right here, this old dude… Read More
2017-04-19 15:27
Calls are mounting for a Florida GOP senator to resign after it was revealed that he hurled a flurry of racially-charged expletives at two African-American colleagues while they were having… Read More
2017-04-19 15:25
Science and technology students at the nation’s historically black colleges could get a boost from President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at altering a visa program that… Read More
For African-American Families Hit Hard By The War On Drugs, Pot Comes Out Of The Shadows, But Slowly
2017-04-19 15:21
Jesce Horton still remembers the advice his father often imparted to him while he was growing up. “Don’t talk back to police,” for example. Or, “Don’t reach for… Read More
2017-04-17 21:05
Open up the photo app on your phone and search “dog,” and all the pictures you have of dogs will come up. This was no easy feat. Your phone knows what a dog “looks” l… Read More
2017-04-17 16:03
During the 2016 presidential campaign, many observers wondered exactly what motivated voters most: Was it income? Authoritarianism? Racial attitudes? Let the analyses begin. Last week, the w… Read More
2017-04-17 16:00
cclaimed TV shows such as “Atlanta,” “Black-ish” and “Insecure” reveal a troubling paradox: Why do many well-educated black Americans feel so economically… Read More
2017-04-17 15:57
In her job as a refugee case manager, Fatimah Farooq would come to work in a hijab and speak with her clients in Arabic. Nonetheless, she found herself being asked whether she was Muslim. It… Read More
2017-04-17 15:50
To find Shankleville, Texas, you have to know what you’re looking for. The usual makings of a small town are nowhere to be found: no welcome sign with crests from the Lions Club, no po… Read More
2017-04-17 15:47
Over the past four weeks, it has been virtually impossible to avoid the fact that another Easter holiday is upon us. Whether it be the bunny decorations in the center aisle of every store or… Read More
2017-04-17 15:45
Pepsi’s most recent advertising ploy has made headlines for the past couple of weeks. Using Kendall Jenner — a model who has done no actual work or activism regarding social just… Read More
2017-04-17 15:42
For many, getting a college education is the first step toward living the American Dream. You find a good-paying job, save up for a new home, maybe marriage and eventually retire when the ti… Read More
2017-04-13 20:49
My grandmother Sylvia moved from Brooklyn to Iowa when she was 89 years old. It was a culture shock, to say the least. When my mom took her to vote, she complained of the candidates, “… Read More
2017-04-13 20:45
In the United States and Brazil, two countries with deep histories of racial injustice, disparities in educational opportunities between racial minorities and white populations manifest as e… Read More
2017-04-13 19:24
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African American woman to serve on New York’s top court and the first female Muslim judge in the United States, was found dead in the Hudson River on Wed… Read More
2017-04-12 18:16
In March 1967 when I was working as a young civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi, I was asked to come to Washington to testify before the Senate Committee on L… Read More
2017-04-12 18:04
After Mike Brown was fatally shot and killed by former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, came a string of similar, frequent incidents between police… Read More
2017-04-12 18:02
The road from the development of a new drug in a laboratory to shepherding it through a series of clinical trials and presenting research findings to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is… Read More
2017-04-12 17:59
When younger Americans move, it tends to be to places that are more racially and ethnically diverse than where they leave. But for older Americans, the opposite is often true. A new study pu… Read More
2017-04-12 17:57
In America all ethnic minorities are targets of racism or prejudice, but let’s be very clear, there is still a hierarchy of racism in America. There are “model minorities,”… Read More
2017-04-11 21:21
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the voter identification law the Texas Legislature passed in 2011 was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters, raising… Read More
2017-04-11 21:12
Democrats are trying to make sure African-American voters don’t sit out a closely watched special election by casting the Georgia House race as an opportunity to rebuke President Donal… Read More
2017-04-11 21:09
n the wake of the racist and sexist comments that Bill O’Reilly made about her, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters seems to be getting the last laugh. Last week, sponsors fled his… Read More
2017-04-10 17:56
Federal intervention to curb police abuse did not begin after chants of “I can’t breathe,” viral cellphone videos or the Black Lives Matter movement. It began 21 years ago… Read More
2017-04-10 17:53
Last week, a fundraising email was circulated in support of David Clarke, Milwaukee’s infamous conservative sheriff. The email was made to look like it came from Rudy Giuliani. However… Read More
2017-04-10 15:57
At a campaign stop last year, Donald Trump saw one black man in a sea of white supporters. Without a drop of embarrassment he announced, “Oh, look at my African American over there. Lo… Read More
2017-04-10 15:44
President Barack Obama may have taken steps to reverse the war on drugs, but it looks like Attorney General Jeff Sessions is going to roll back the clock. Sessions and Steven H. Cook, a vehe… Read More
2017-04-10 14:57
He stood 5-foot-4 and weighed 130 pounds. An angular, baby-smooth face made him look even less intimidating. Henry Johnson was at first just another railroad porter who toted luggage and smi… Read More
2017-04-10 14:50
For two years, Amy Mays lived without electricity, storing food in an ice chest during Arizona’s scorching hot summers. When Mays opened a beauty shop with her daughter in 1994, she di… Read More
2017-04-10 14:08
America’s Sunday news shows have gotten marginally much better with having Brown faces on their political roundtables to discuss issues of the day. But we’re still not there yet… Read More
2017-04-10 14:05
I have spent my career working in societies across the globe as they confronted legacies of unspeakable human rights abuses. I witnessed the struggle for justice in the former Yugoslavia, Pa… Read More
2017-04-07 15:13
The United States is a melting pot of cultures, ethnicities, religions, and races. Over the last century, the blending of socio-economic groups has altered the norms and customs in our natio… Read More
2017-04-07 15:01
During a 2016 campaign speech to a mostly white crowd in Dimondale, Michigan, soon-to-be President Donald Trump directed a plea to black voters in the upcoming general election. “You&r&hell…Read More
2017-04-07 14:57
Last year in game 3 of a 4 game National Football League pre-season series, quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose not to stand for the National Anthem. It wasn’t the first time he did thi… Read More
2017-04-07 14:55
A well-known butcher in the West Village is being investigated by cops for allegedly handing a noose to an African-American delivery driver and saying “Here’s your present.&rdquo&hell…Read More
2017-04-07 14:13
On average, African Americans are less likely to be fit, and more likely to be obese. As it turns out, there’s at least once huge disincentive for would-be African-American joggers: Wh… Read More
2017-04-07 14:07
In the aftermath of former-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s crushing defeat last November, a number of groups were launched to encourage greater political participation amon… Read More
2017-04-07 14:01
Jolene Jouett took a short puff from her cigarette and looked out the window at the neighborhood she has known her entire life. She spoke aloud to herself, repeating the question: How had it… Read More
2017-04-07 13:57
A new study that takes a look at the long-run impact of same-race teachers reveals that Black students who have Black teachers are more likely to experience academic success. The study, publ… Read More
2017-04-07 13:53
The NAACP issued a letter to Attorney General Sessions questioning the legality of announced attempts to modify consent decrees between the Department of Justice and a number of municipaliti… Read More
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