Black Unemployment
Dr. King Would Have Been 95 This Year. Let’s Make His Dream A Reality…
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Chuck Collins Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots This January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. Nearly ...
Congressional Black Caucus Advances Black Agenda In Biden Meeting
Photos: CBC On Monday the Executive Board of the Congressional Black Caucus met with President Biden and senior White House officials to discuss the ...
With White Unemployment at 5.1% President Biden Says “America On the Move” But Black Unemployment Is 9.1%
President Biden says America is “on the move.” Really? Photo: Wikimedia Commons. President Biden celebrated the new jobs numbers, with the creation of 559,000 ...
Trump’s Pardons Can’t Mask Police Brutality and Institutional Racism
Trump. Who’s he fooling? Photo: Gage Skidmore–Flickr. Last week, Donald Trump asked NFL players protesting police brutality to submit names of incarcerated people they ...
Black Businesses: We Shouldn’t Wait For Anyone To Solve Our Woes
[To The Editor] With respect to LetsBuyBlack365: Black business is the solution to Black unemployment if we use what we have available. It will ...
Fed Reserve Must Narrow Black-White Unemployment Gap By Striving For Full Employment
William E. Spriggs [Commentary: The Economy] The recently released minutes of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee revealed there ...
Are You Mad Enough At Don Sterling To Support Black-Owned Businesses?
Ron Busby, Sr. [Forward With Business] Let me get my disclaimer out of the way first. The U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) is a ...
The Big Decision: Stop-And-Frisk Must Go
[Election 2013: Speaking Truth To Power] As New York City residents await Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s decision in the Floyd v. City of New ...