2017-04-06 20:47
The dream of owning a home has been an elusive one for African-Americans in recent years, according to new research that shows a trend that could affect the overall economic health of the Bl… Read More
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2017-04-06 20:42
For many black Americans, owning a piece of the American Dream is nothing but a fading reverie. According to research from the Urban Institute, homeownership rates for blacks in the U.S. hav… Read More
2017-04-06 20:41
It’s no surprise that the lack of diversity in the professional workforce is a common problem. A quick internet search will unearth countless studies confirming that women and minoriti… Read More
2017-04-06 20:39
Even in the splintered and often fractious world of social justice movements, Black Lives Matter doesn’t fit easily into existing categories. Few grassroots uprisings have done as much… Read More
2017-04-06 20:32
The Justice Department may again reopen its investigation into the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. The revelation came a week after Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed his support for purs… Read More
2017-04-06 20:27
When a national movement for racial justice flared here two and a half years ago, activists nationwide hoped to upend the political order. Ferguson was one of many predominantly black commun… Read More
2017-04-06 20:17
Silicon Valley’s leading tech companies have long been stumped over how to diversify. Despite efforts to recruit and retain black and Latino engineers, the numbers haven’t budged… Read More
2017-04-06 20:09
It’s no secret that a toxic combination of misogyny and racism helped Donald J. Trump win the presidency. Never mind dog whistles and code—Trump proudly displayed his contempt fo… Read More
2017-04-04 20:15
The Education Department said Monday will begin identifying students who burned through federal Pell grants to pay for colleges that closed before they could graduate, with the goal of resto… Read More
2017-04-04 20:12
Fifty years ago today (April 4) something miraculous happened in the United States. In the midst of the Cold War, in which the U.S. branded many of its critics communist traitors, the Rev. D… Read More
2017-04-04 20:10
Over the last several decades, black workers have been offering more to the economy and the labor market to incredibly disappointing results in pay and unemployment. Some have argued that th… Read More
2017-04-04 20:07
For the past year and a half, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have been ringing the alarm about rising mortality among middle-aged white Americans. The pair have attracted a… Read More
2017-04-04 18:38
On the April 4, 1968, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to support the city’s striking s… Read More
2017-04-04 18:32
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a sweeping review of federal agreements with dozens of law enforcement agencies, an examination that reflects President Trump’s emphasis on l… Read More
2017-04-04 18:30
Is there a real cost to racial segregation? According to a new study from the Metropolitan Planning Council and Urban Institute, there is. In fact, it’s costing the country BILLIONS of… Read More
2017-04-03 21:44
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” targets a number of programs for severe cuts or outright e… Read More
2017-04-03 21:37
In places where the Latino population is increasing, it is not unlikely to notice that Latinos are the minorities keeping HBCU’s alive. These minorities are upon many who are actually… Read More
2017-04-03 21:35
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has established a stellar legacy. Known for her unwavering courage, she has championed countless domestic and international causes. Her tenure of almost 40 years… Read More
2017-04-03 16:03
Reformers are famously prey to the fanaticism of reform. A sense of indignation and a good cause lead first to moral urgency, and then soon afterward to repetition, whereby the reformers bec… Read More
2017-04-03 16:01
Greg Akili had just finished paying for his $9 tuna melt at a diner in South Central Los Angeles when his waiter lingered to chat. Akili’s debit card – featuring a painting of a… Read More
2017-04-03 15:59
Nationally, black junior high and high school students are suspended at a rate more than three times as often as their white peers, twice as often as their Latino peers and more than 10 time… Read More
2017-04-03 15:19
A federal appeals court has blocked an African-American attorney’s effort to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi state flag. He says he’ll take the case to… Read More
2017-04-03 14:49
When driving around a city it is easy to overlook the erosion of the historical factors that have shaped a neighborhood. Such is the case when considering the trajectory of urban development… Read More
2017-04-03 14:41
With average home sales prices recently hitting an all-time high, it’s easy to get excited about the future of Memphis’ housing market. However, even as the city seems poised to… Read More
2017-04-02 15:35
According to a new report from the NAACP, utility company shut off policies disproportionately impact low-income and African American communities, literally leaving thousands in the dark, st… Read More
2017-04-02 15:31
The presidency of Donald J. Trump has morphed into a system that seeks to promote White supremacy, better known as “Make America White Again.” His concept of how the government w… Read More
2017-03-31 16:18
The Black Women’s Roundtable, a national civic group, released its fourth annual report today about African-American women in the U.S., providing a “prescriptive agenda” of… Read More
2017-03-31 16:12
Earlier this month in Beijing, amid the pomp of China’s annual rubber-stamp parliament meetings, a politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to “solve the prob… Read More
2017-03-31 16:09
Only three percent of influential black leaders think public schools are preparing black students to attend and graduate from college; however, the majority of leaders are optimistic they ca… Read More
2017-03-31 15:17
Remember when the nation’s capital was so black that Parliament Funkadelic nicknamed Washington, D.C., “Chocolate City”? Maybe you’re old enough to remember when Cali… Read More
2017-03-31 15:13
Today it’s Maxine Waters and April Ryan. But for black women in America, many days they can insert their own name into a tale about being disrespected, or discriminated against, while… Read More
2017-03-31 15:08
For the second time in the eight months since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem to protest police killings of black men, a gro… Read More
2017-03-31 15:01
The movement for black lives is alive and well across America and on social media, but you probably wouldn’t know that from watching CNN. Reported incidents of anti-black hate crimes a… Read More
2017-03-31 14:31
Last Wednesday in Washington, hundreds of people crowded into a town-hall meeting about the district’s many missing black and Latino kids. A photo of the event, circulated on Twitter t… Read More
2017-03-30 15:59
Right-wing media to President Obama: We are so very sorry. That’s the message I got last week from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page. The Journal abandoned efforts to… Read More
2017-03-30 15:45
Late last month, the White House invited leaders from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to participate in a listening session and to meet with President Trump, Vice Pr… Read More
2017-03-30 15:41
More than two years after this St. Louis suburb exploded in angry — and at times violent — protest following the police shooting of Michael Brown, Ferguson’s white mayor is… Read More
2017-03-30 15:36
African-Americans are a disadvantaged population. This is not up for debate. We have less access to quality education. We are underutilized and undervalued in the labor market, making it har… Read More
2017-03-30 15:34
Shamoya McKenzie was on top of the world as she left midday basketball practice on New Year’s Eve 2016. The 6-foot-2 middle-schooler had just learned she was moving up to the high scho… Read More
2017-03-30 15:22
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan to remove Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “This action is necessar… Read More
2017-03-29 17:36
When a cop tells you to do something, do it. You hear this folk wisdom a lot, and it? basically comes in two varieties. The first version is the central lesson of “the Talk” that… Read More
2017-03-29 17:30
Slow clap for Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, free agent wide receiver Anquan Boldin and the other NFL players who took their case to Congress this week to push lawmakers for leg… Read More
2017-03-29 17:26
There was barely any standing room left at a recent town hall meeting on the unacceptable number of missing black and Latinx teenagers in the nation’s capital. The March 22 gathering w… Read More
2017-03-29 17:12
President Donald Trump finally met with the Congressional Black Caucus last week. During the presidential campaign, Trump met mainly with former African-American athletes, Black entertainers… Read More
2017-03-29 17:07
Pamela Jolly’s parents paid thousands of dollars a year to send her to a private, Philadelphia-area Catholic school where, they hoped, she could spend her formative years not being def… Read More
2017-03-29 17:00
In 1827, with the publication of the “Freedom’s Journal,” John Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish established the Black Press and boldly declared their mission: to be the… Read More
2017-03-29 16:47
White House spokesman Sean Spicer and Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly stirred up a social media hornet’s nest Tuesday with separate remarks that incensed black women from coast to… Read More
2017-03-29 16:37
Omarosa Manigault, President Donald Trump’s director of communications for public liaison, walked out of a breakfast meeting she had requested to attend, hosted by the National Newspap… Read More
2017-03-28 18:18
As African-Americans, we know there are a plethora of reasons our lifespans are almost four years lower than Whites, but there’s a menacing health danger flying under the radar that ge… Read More
2017-03-28 03:30
175 years after establishing the Sisters of the Holy Family order, Henriette Delille, a French-speaking woman of African descent stands at the doorstep of sainthood. If canonized, it will ma… Read More
2017-03-28 03:22
The Black Lives Matter movement is looking to tackle yet another social justice issue: fair, livable wages. A band of Black Lives Matter groups and the organization leading the charge for th… Read More
2017-03-28 03:18
In 2001, Michael Muhammad, a 45-year-old baker from Detroit, moved 1,000 miles south to rural Fayette, Miss. Muhammad saw opportunity in the town’s cheap land, low property taxes and s… Read More
2017-03-28 03:05
On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Rob… Read More
2017-03-28 03:01
On Election Day, when Chris Cooper walked into his usual precinct to vote, a greeter asked him, “Do you live in this town?” The question was perhaps innocent. After all, there ar… Read More
2017-03-28 02:49
The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor’s family practice in McKenzie, Tennessee, could well represent the face of the state’s opioid epidemic. They were in… Read More
2017-03-27 20:29
During the campaign and the first few weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, it didn’t seem as though African Americans were explicitly targeted with negative policy directives (oth… Read More
2017-03-27 20:26
When did you last have dinner in your home with a person of another race? That’s a question Republican Senators Tim Scott and James Lankford have been asking, urging Americans to devot… Read More
2017-03-27 20:21
When President Trump met with leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) this week, I was reminded of a fantasy I had during the 2016 campaign that involved then-candidate Trump shaking… Read More
2017-03-27 20:02
While the new administration continues to focus on unsubstantiated claims of vote fraud, across the country, communities continue to wrestle with the real and significant impact of voter sup… Read More
2017-03-27 19:56
When Kennedi High, a 16-year-old with autism, didn’t come home from school in early March, her family in Baltimore knew something was terribly wrong. At a press conference assembled by… Read More
2017-03-27 19:41
If you want to know why support for Obamacare is at an all-time high, here’s one explanation: A change in complexion leads to a change in perception. That’s how some explain the… Read More
2017-03-27 19:39
On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Rob… Read More
2017-03-23 20:44
On the campaign trail last summer, Donald Trump tried to appeal to African Americans by asking what we had to lose by voting him into office. Exit polls showed that we had a hunch what a Tru… Read More
2017-03-23 20:23
A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people turned himself in with knives in his pocket at a Manhattan police station on Wednesday, a day after authorities say… Read More
2017-03-23 19:18
Compared with the ongoing firestorm over Russia and impending showdown over health care, President Trump’s meeting with Congressional Black Caucus leaders Wednesday might seem peripher… Read More
2017-03-23 19:05
Black lawmakers emerged from a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday saying the president was at least willing to listen to their concerns that his policies and… Read More
2017-03-23 19:03
Black lawmakers emerged from a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday saying the president was at least willing to listen to their concerns that his policies and… Read More
2017-03-22 20:42
After the Senate passed House Joint Resolution 42, which provides states with much more freedom in drug testing people who apply for unemployment benefits, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, w… Read More
2017-03-22 19:02
Even in the face of race-based oppression, Black millennials are keeping their heads to the sky. In fact, Black young adults are the most optimistic about their future in America when compar… Read More
2017-03-22 17:46
The NAACP released the following statement regarding its letter sent to state officials around the nation regarding the issue of voter suppression. On the 52nd anniversary of the Selma to Mo… Read More
2017-03-22 16:39
A federal jury awarded $10.2 million to the family of an Oklahoma Army vet who died after spending days in a Tulsa jail cell with a broken neck. On Monday afternoon, jurors sided with the es… Read More
2017-03-20 18:55
The nation’s businesses added 235,000 jobs in February but the companies obviously didn’t hire in the Black community where the unemployment rate went up compared to other racial… Read More
2017-03-20 18:50
We are still debating the basic humanity of black people and other minority groups. That’s at the heart of the unrest we’ve seen in places such as Middlebury College, where a pro… Read More
2017-03-20 18:45
Today, across the United States in nearly every African American community, millions of parents are striving to do all that they can to ensure that their children receive the highest quality… Read More
2017-03-20 18:40
This month, Bethune-Cookman, a historically black university in Daytona Beach, Fla., announced an “affiliation” deal with Arizona Summit Law School, a for-profit institution in P… Read More
2017-03-20 18:33
African Americans comprise the majority of defendants wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual assault and drug crimes who are later exonerated, according to a study released by the National R… Read More
2017-03-20 18:27
New U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to revive 1990s law-and-order strategies that pumped up the nation’s prison population to the highest level in the world to fight the rece… Read More
2017-03-20 18:23
Although often not covered in the media, the African immigrant community is facing mass deportations in the era of Donald Trump. While the immigration debate in the U.S. is often framed in t… Read More
2017-03-17 20:38
In a dimly lit church basement, James Gaymon III spent much of Thursday staring at practice questions as he prepared for his high school general equivalency diploma exam. He recently moved i… Read More
2017-03-17 20:30
After meetings with the Trump administration last month, leaders of historically black colleges and universities expressed cautious optimism that the increased funding they requested might a… Read More
2017-03-17 20:28
Forty-two percent of Americans say they worry a “great deal” about race relations here in the United States, according to a new Gallup Poll released Wednesday, March 15. Worries… Read More
2017-03-17 20:24
College grants. Heating and power bill assistance. Community development funding. The delivery of meals to homebound seniors who would otherwise starve. Free civil legal aid for poor people… Read More
2017-03-17 20:21
As the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments kick off this week, a majority of Americans who have any opinion on the subject are still opposed to paying college athletes, according… Read More
2017-03-17 20:16
The oldest Black business industry in America began 190 years ago today. On March 16, 1827, the first edition of the “Freedom’s Journal” was published, thrusting African-Am… Read More
2017-03-17 20:14
President Trump has invited all 49 members of the Congressional Black Caucus for a meeting at the White House next Wednesday, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Members of… Read More
2017-03-16 21:29
After a presidential campaign filled with racist rhetoric, the Republicans have proposed a healthcare agenda that will harm many black, brown, and poor Americans while helping the white and… Read More
2017-03-16 21:26
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen announced Wednesday that the central bank would be adjusting the target range for the federal funds rate—a short-term interest rate at which ba… Read More
2017-03-16 21:18
Sometimes I wonder if I was a Black Democrat, a retired Black athlete or a Black comedian would it be easier for me to get a meeting with the leadership of the Republican Party or harder. As… Read More
2017-03-16 21:15
For months, Micah Speed, a 15-year-old African-American student at Wake Forest High School in Wake County, North Carolina, turned the other cheek as a white classmate hurled racist insults a… Read More
2017-03-16 15:30
A nation’s budget is a document that reflects its priorities. While President Trump has yet to submit his first budget to Congress, we are already learning what will likely be in it. T… Read More
2017-03-16 15:11
The recent indictment of former Maryland Del. Michael Vaughn has generated speculation among Black Prince Georgians that elected officials of their race are being targeted. On March 8, U.S… Read More
2017-03-16 15:05
An Alabama lawmaker shouted down a committee meeting speaker who dismissed marijuana arrest disparities as playing the “race card.” Democratic Rep. Juandalynn Givan, of Birmingha… Read More
2017-03-15 14:45
A bill to remove commemoration of Robert E. Lee from Arkansas’ dual holiday celebrating Lee and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cleared a House panel Tuesday after Gov. Asa Hutchinson… Read More
2017-03-15 14:43
Our heart is the engine that keeps our body running. That’s why problems with the heart—such as coronary artery disease, high blood pressure or heart failure—can significan… Read More
2017-03-15 14:31
White people perceive young African-American men to be heavier, stronger and more dangerous than young white men of similar size, according to a newly released study. The new research, publi… Read More
2017-03-15 14:28
Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on the American Health Care Act: “As has been widely reported… Read More
2017-03-15 14:21
Blacks are absent from the narrative about executive orders, chilling raids, and deportations, say advocates who have increased efforts to help Black immigrants survive in America’s ug… Read More
2017-03-15 14:19
Despite Black and White men being the same weight and height, people perceive African-Americans as physically more dangerous, a new study finds. According to the report, Black men are viewed… Read More
2017-03-15 14:16
The 2016 presidential election will go down as the election that spawned a million takes. Much of this debate centered around whether the rise of Donald Trump was primarily due to economic a… Read More
2017-03-15 14:12
Consider: * By the age of 14, approximately 25 percent of African American children have experienced a parent — in most cases a father — being imprisoned for some period of time… Read More
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