Never before has a Black woman led this division that guides the federal government’s commitment to civil rights for all.
Charlene Crowell
Posted inFeatured, National, News
Black households earned 61 cents for every dollar of White median incomes
Black America and other people of color still cry for justice, equality, and freedom.
Posted inFeatured, News
Black America’s housing crisis: more renters than homeowners
According to HUD, 56,381 Blacks (27%) are living on the nation’s streets, instead of in homeless shelters.
Posted inEducation
Senate Education Chair blocks bipartisan bill to extend HBCU funding
Tennessee’s Senator Lamar Alexander, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee blocked HBCU funding.
Posted inOpinion
A national crisis: surging hate crimes and White supremacists
Now is also a time to remember that regardless of race or ethnicity, our history chronicles the range of hate crimes that have taken the lives of Latinos as well as Native Americans, Blacks, Jews, and the LGBTQ community.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Opinion
Remembering Dr. King and ‘The Other America’
In 2019, the two Americas King wrote about still remain. A nation once lauded for its enviable and expanding middle class has evolved into a nation of people who are either growing wealthy or growing poor.
Posted inOpinion
Fair Housing’s unfinished 50-year journey
As observances begin across the country, now is an appropriate time to recall how fair housing was a key issue for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In fact, Chicago became his chosen battleground for fair housing, bringing a national spotlight to the multiple ills of segregated and sub-standard housing.