Here's how Dr. King’s final address, which highlighted the importance of jobs, economic independence, and Black economic ...

The political media calls Trump a “populist.” But as Dr. King made clear in a 1965 speech, American populism was a movement ...

After 11 years of economic expansion, the difference in the unemployment rates between black and white older workers is at historic lows – just 1.1 percentage points apart (details below).

The report traces the Black-white wealth gap to a "discriminatory economic system that keeps Black households from achieving the American dream," which encompasses everything from housing market ...

“There’s not enough white men,” John Hope Bryant ... minority groups have immense purchasing power that is critical to the ...

President Joe Biden will leave the White House with a strong economy, historic gains in the job market, a foundation for ...

Al Sharpton has threatened to launch a boycott against the numerous companies that have eliminated their DEI initiatives in ...

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil ...

From birth to death, Black people face systemic disadvantages in American life more than 150 years after slavery was abolished. Inequality between white and Black Americans persists in almost ...

Algernon Austin, director of race and economic Justice at the ... higher than the 3.8% rate for white workers. The report ...

The pandemic has only exacerbated the economic hardships for those ... typically owe 50% more student debt than white borrowers, and four years later, Black borrowers owe 100% more.

The economy added 236,000 nonfarm jobs ... room for improvement in the employment conditions of Black workers. And the EPR for white men has recovered only to 68.0%, smack in the middle of ...