Racial Equality

Modern-day problems of gentrification and racial inequality play into a debate over what to do with streets and statues that honor the Civil War south.

New report shows stark history of the racial wealth divide and the public policy, both historical and current, that contributes to it. Originally published by Talk Poverty. The U.S. Constitution...

Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries Racial and economic inequality are the most pressing social issues of our time. In the last decade, we...

How a black youth-led organization aims to cut the profit flow from mass incarceration into the pockets of the wealthy and the multi-billion dollar security industry. By Cedric Lawson In...

African American and Latino households still haven't recovered to pre-recession levels, another sign of the growing racial wealth divide.  Recently the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment situation report, which...

For the first time, Democrats are acknowledging America's deep racial wealth gap — and the policies that created it.

With people of color soon dominating the working class, it's even more important that everyone earns a living wage. Without this we are doomed to eternal inequality.

In an era of seemingly endless political commentary, you could be excused for not digging into the 40 pages of less-than-breathless prose that make up the working draft of the...

Lewis Steel's new book offers a peek inside the psyche of a man who was born to wealth but devoted himself to fighting racial inequality.