Middle-class Blacks are using credit to help cover their basic living expenses, according to a report from the NAACP and public policy research organization, Demos. In the recession’s aftermath, 79 ...

Black federal workers have historically benefited from stability, good benefits, and less discrimination. Trump's job cuts and DEI scrutiny, helmed by Elon Musk's DOGE office, threaten that security.

Julian Houston's New Boy (Houghton Mifflin, 282 pp. $16) is another in a growing genre of books about minority students leaving their home communities to attend all-white or predominantly white ...

Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them. Great numbers of Americans support the overarching goals ...

MIAMI -- A couple of months ago, Kayasa Cobb entered a dim, cramped cubicle to apply for a job paying about $7 an hour selling clothes at Burdines-Macy's. Then she started thinking. She already had a ...

Don Buckley lost his job driving a Chicago Transit Authority bus almost two years ago and has been looking for work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers around the country are being laid ...

OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF RACE IN AMERICA. PROGRESS IS OFTEN MET WITH CONFLICT. OUR JESSICA BROWN SITS DOWN WITH ANTHONY WALTON TO DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK CALLED THE END OF RESPECTABILITY NOTES OF A ...

To borrow for a moment the terminology of the faith-filled Church of God in Christ, it was a miraculous sight to see downtown St. Louis flooded with tens of thousands of proud and devout African ...

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When BreAntra Jackson started working at the Internal Revenue Service last October, she was excited to have secured a coveted position in the federal government. "Working at the IRS was one of the ...