By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Decades of vigilant struggles, sacrifices and civil rights legislation enacted in the 1960s won federal promises to ensure that discrimination...
By Bria Nicole Stone (NNPA Newswire Contributor) As tech companies struggle to recruit and hire African-Americans and other minorities, companies in another billion-dollar industry, have embraced...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As the Senate Banking Committee turns its attention to reform the nation’s secondary mortgage market, civil rights leaders recently spoke...
By Erick Johnson (Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member) Los Angeles has lured another Black icon away from the Windy City. The company that now owns EBONY and Jet...
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor/NNPA Newswire) Even though Black women lost ground in the labor market last month, the unemployment rate for Black workers dipped below...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A House bill designed to reverse regulation of financial services and end consumer protections is attracting the attention of a...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Families, who have assembled the necessary financial resources to apply, qualify, and then purchase a home, understandably value that key...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) If Black lives matter, then Black wealth should certainly matter, too. That’s the motto that Eugene Mitchell, a corporate...
By Lauren Poteat (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In an effort to increase opportunities for Black women entrepreneurs, Odyssey Media launched “Keys to Success: Access to Capital,” a...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) This year’s swearing-in of a new Congress and President signaled a surge of new ideas and approaches to government. However,...
By Angelo C. Louw (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) “I have observed this in my experience of slavery, — that whenever my condition was improved, instead of...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) African-American physicians earn 15 percent less than White physicians—an average of $262,000 compared to $303,000—according to Medscape’s 2017 Physicians...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Remember the scene from “New Jack City” when Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) told Scotty (Ice-T), “This ain’t personal; this is...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Carol H. Williams has been quite busy. The advertising legend and owner of the agency that bears her name,...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) The employment prospects for African Americans showed little improvement in March, according to the Labor Department’s most recent jobs...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) This year has brought a number of significant developments. A new Congress, the 115th in our nation’s history and similarly...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Retailers, restaurants, healthcare companies and technology firms often turn to newspaper inserts, as a tried-and-true method to reach consumers,...
By Dr. John E. Warren (San Diego Voice and Viewpoint/NNPA Member) Following a series of high profile lawsuits and allegations of misconduct, the embattled Wells Fargo...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) There are great opportunities for African Americans and Latinos in the oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries, according to...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) From youth yearning for the time to have their own place, to older Americans hoping to age in place, the...
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) During President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, the Black unemployment rate rose as the White unemployment rate...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) When it comes to purchasing and financing a vehicle, Black and Latino consumers—more often than other racial or ethnic groups—are...
By Erick Johnson (Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member) Downtown Chicago is set to explode with construction. In the next several years, the city that gave birth to the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) LOS ANGELES — Eight hundred Southern California businesses have joined thousands of entrepreneurs across the country in an initiative...
Racial Wealth Gap Could Close with Systemic Public Policy Reforms, says New Research By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As 2017’s Black History observances unfold in...
