By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) The Black unemployment rate continued to improve falling from 7.8 percent in December to 7.7 percent in January, according...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In 2016, Janet Uthman was named to Ebony magazine’s Power 100, a distinction handed out to such notable African-American...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The job of a lifetime is something most aspire to but, for some, the fantasy simply is much too...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As a new Congress and White House begin their respective governmental roles, a still-growing cadre of supporters and opponents are...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As a New Year approaches, fair lending will be the priority for the nation’s consumer financial cop on the beat....
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) For the third time in two years, a large for-profit college has faced charges of defrauding its students. This time...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2016 Contact Information Comcast Corporation Katie Lubenow, 215-286-5691 Katie_Lubenow@comcast.com or Jeannette Castaneda, 215-286-4933 Jeannette_Castaneda@comcast.com PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Cable today announced the...
By Roz Edward (Michigan Chronicle, NNPA Member) The Impact Network, the only independent African American-owned and operated Christian television network in the United States, will now...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Negroes…sometimes choose their own leaders but unfortunately they are too often the wrong kind. Negroes do not readily follow persons...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A 2011 case that was filed in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court led to a 5-week trial in Houston and a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) CHICAGO — Nearly 500 Chicago businesses have joined thousands of entrepreneurs across the country in an initiative to create...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) The Black unemployment rate improved from 8.6 percent in October to 8.1 percent in November, according to the latest...
By Sarafina Wright (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) After weeks of bad press, Wells Fargo received an award acknowledging their efforts to diversify homeownership. The Mortgage Bankers...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) It’s a trend that many are hoping won’t just turn into a passing fad. Late last month, Essence magazine...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As Americans adjust to the realities wrought by the recent elections, one of the most important consequences has yet to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today announced that it has given Wells Fargo Home Lending an inaugural Diversity & Inclusion...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) Black workers lost ground last month, as the unemployment rate increased from 8.3 percent in September to 8.6 percent...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A growing number of Atlanta businesses are living up to the city’s famous nickname: Hotlanta! More than 20 businesses...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE U.S. BLACK CHAMBERS NAMED DISTINGUISHED ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR USBC honored by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency 2016...
[ECONOMIST.COM] INSIDE the atrium of a gleaming new building on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, trainee air stewards flit between the classrooms and aeroplane simulators that...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) After returning billions of dollars in restitution that helped more than 25 million consumers plagued with financial struggles, the Consumer...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Within days of the October 7 deadline for public comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed payday rule, 104...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Turnabout is fair play. Why can’t more of us see that economics is the key to our freedom and the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Ten years ago, Cameo Faust, a single mother of seven, was working at an Atlanta-area McDonald’s, struggling to make...
By R. Donahue Peebles (Chairman, of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.) Throughout America, minority communities are being undermined by a...
