Racial Equality

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.

A new report shows black families struggling to gain access despite the illusion of racial equity we see on television. The Urban League recently released its annual report on the...

What do the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Freddie Gray have to say about the United States today? This April marks the one-year anniversary of the 2015...

A new report reveals a staggering racial wealth gap in one of the nation’s largest cities. What may be equally staggering is the implications for the rest of the country....