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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Let’s Buy Black 365’s Gives Committed Black-owned Business a $1 Million Stimulus to Boost the Black Economy.

Let’s Buy Black 365’s Gives Committed Black-owned Business a $1 Million Stimulus to Boost the Black Economy. January 15, 2018 – Washington, DC – ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Obama, Black America and the Jobs Crisis

For African Americans, the Great Recession continues. This is both troubling and ironic because it coincides with the administration of the nation’s first black ...

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 ...