Recession by any other name still hits Blacks hardest
'Some are having to consider taking their families to move back into their elderly parents’ homes...'
Jon Jeter is a contributing writer at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, who has also served stints at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Washington Post, among others.
'Some are having to consider taking their families to move back into their elderly parents’ homes...'
'The grassroots in the Black community will have to save itself.'
Unarmed Black people are killed by police at a rate three times higher than Whites.
The result is two nations in one, with Whites’ overall living standards rivaling Canada’s or Western Europe, while Blacks live...
'Where is the money, where is the land, where are all the things that we are owed in terms of...
Blacks lost more wealth following the 2008 collapse of the real estate market than at any time since the 1874...
To many observers, the exploitation of the Juneteenth holiday for marketing purposes mirrors the exploitation of the Black body in...
What, other than madness, could have caused 18-year-old Payton Gendron to walk into the Tops supermarket in Buffalo and kill...
African Americans have served in every military conflict since the Revolutionary War, yet faced discrimination in every branch of the...
'I think that we have made some progress, but the problem is we get complacent and the minute that things...
African American boys between the ages of five and 12 are more likely to die by suicide than any other...
'Congratulations to her, but we’ve been here before and it seems we’re stuck here loving and celebrating symbolism without tangibles.'
'I am not here to debate you on his innocence. But we can agree that the punishment does not fit...
A reflection on the legacy of Brian Coyle, a champion for the city’s poor.
The ratio of African American households who own their own home has dropped to its lowest number, 42%, in more...
Reflections on both the towering triumphs and embarrassing failures of a trade union movement.
History is replete with examples of White physicians brutalizing African Americans rather than healing them.
The devastation, of course, comes only five weeks after gunmen burst into Haiti’s presidential palace and assassinated President Jovenel Moïse.
Of the 943,000 jobs created in July, 380,000 were in the hospitality sector, where wages are notoriously low...
Several Black female athletes have experienced issues ahead of the 2021 Olympics that has raised concerns of racism and patriarchy.
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