Making 64 Cents for Every Dollar
On Black Women's Pay Equity Day, experts weigh in on income inequality for African-American women. By Kimberly Freeman Brown and Marc Bayard This past Tuesday was Black Women's Pay Equity...
Racial Equality
How America Is Failing Its Schools
America's schools are not failing; America is failing its schools.
The Economics of the New Jim Crow
Racism is evolving into an insidious form of quiet economic subjugation. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9199" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: AllenBWest.com[/caption] In 1931 the New Republic reported on a lynching in...
Depths of Poverty in the Deep South
The residents of Tchula, Mississippi live with deep poverty that stems from slavery and Jim Crow. By Scott Rodd [caption id="attachment_9145" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Scott Rodd, ThinkProgress[/caption] Andrew sat a...
From the Great Society to the Debt Trap
The most financially vulnerable Americans are falling into the Debt Trap. By Larry Checco Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society, a set of domestic programs...
Civil War Rages On for Black America
By righting a 150-year-old wrong, re-enactors aim to help remedy long untreated ills at the root of today’s #BlackLivesMatter movement. Hundreds of African-American men marched to the White House this...
5 Ways Being Poor is a Crime
New report details how being poor in America has become a crime. By Terrell Jermaine Starr This piece originally appeared on Alternet.org. [caption id="attachment_8927" align="alignright" width="300"] Municipalities are fining and...
How Black Women Can Rescue Labor
A new report argues that black women leaders can save the dwindling union movement.
The Language of the Unheard
The protesters in Baltimore need to be heard. Are we listening? After Trayvon, Michael, Eric, John, Tamir, Walter, and countless others, shouldn’t all Americans finally learn something from the death...