August 2016 was Chicago’s deadliest month in nearly two decades, leaving the city’s streets riddled with shell casings and bloodshed from mostly African-American bodies. According to the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics, an astonishing 474 people were victims of homicide in 2016. In August alone, there were 92 deaths, a number slightly lower than July 1993 […]
Tidal recently announced that $1.5 million of the proceeds from their Tidal X: 10/20 charity concert, which took place in Brooklyn back in October, will be distributed to Black Lives Matter and several other organizations that are leading social justice movements.
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According to a new study, the nation’s capital is leading the country in Black unemployment.
16-year-old Amandla Stenberg is launching a new comic book series called "NIOBE: She is Life;" a coming of age narrative about a woman of color.
While poverty rates have decreased for White and Asian families, Black children are more likely to live in poverty than children of other races, a…
The Black unemployment rate is nearly double the national rate and twice as high as that for Whites, even as the economy added 222,000 jobs…
President Barack Obama is on a roll. A bankroll, that is. In a proposal that could cover nearly 5 million workers, the president said Monday…
A study of 100 American cities, facilitated by Measure of America (an initiative of the Social Science Research Council), found that segregation is still affecting…
An Arizona woman who received an outpouring of donations last year after leaving her children in a hot car while she interviewed for a job…
Photo Credit: Getty Images/art-partner images Marie Holmes, an unemployed mother of 4 hit the Powerball jackpot and is set to walk away with $188 million. According to NecoleBitchie.com, one of the new multimillionaire’s kids has celebral palsy, and she had to quit her jobs at Walmart and McDonalds to care for her children. […]
Although the unemployment rate for African-American men has dropped, there still remains a major disparity between other racial groups. The jobless rate for Black men…
