NNPA NEWSWIRE — Further, the wealth gap between Black and non-Black Americans has experienced only marginal growth, with African Americans possessing eighteen cents for every dollar...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Black families, especially those without an employed college graduate, are affected the most by inflation compared with all the other demographics,” said Ellie...
Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act eliminated racial discrimination in lending, the Black community continues to be denied mortgage loans at rates much higher...
August 1st kicks off National Black Business month. And although Black businesses should be supported year-round, all month long people across the country are encouraged to...
The three-day conference was divided into a total of six morning and afternoon plenary lectures and attendees had access to their choice of 55 seminars and...
In a historic settlement, the UC Regents agreed they would eliminate the SAT and the ACT from admissions and scholarship decisions through 2025.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Today we honor one of the world’s most impassioned freedom fighters and ‘drum majors for justice’: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With...
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — The LA County Fair is celebrating decades of pop culture and nowhere will it be more in evidence than this weekend with the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Sixty-five years ago, the Supreme Court tackled the issue of segregation in our nation's school systems. The Brown v. Board of education decision...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Millennial women came of age during the Great Recession, the rise of mass incarceration, unprecedented student debt levels, and changing workforce dynamics.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I am running now because when I see our city and I see our people and I look at the conversations that we...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist After a spirited debate, the South Carolina House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse...
Patricia Cohen, THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI (The New York Times) — For the Ingram clan, working for the Miami-Dade County transit system has led to...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist One of leading freedom fighters in the United States Congress is none other than the extraordinarily dynamic Maxine...
(Black Enterprise) – Brookings Institution recently revealed a new report comparing cities’ top earning households to their least earning. The report serves as an update to 2014 research exploring...
(Black Enterprise) – Brookings Institution recently revealed a new report comparing cities’ top earning households to their least earning. The report serves as an update to 2014 research exploring...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
Danica Kirka, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — The richest 1 percent of the population will own more than half the world’s wealth by 2016, Oxfam...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I...