Racial Disparities

30% Unemployment, Pre-Recession: Immigrant Communities Need Real Recovery

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Seth Freed Wessler

For communities of color, 'recovery' can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions.

Post Racial America? You Are Right!

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics


Rev. Bekeh Utietiang

We still have a long way to go in healing the divisions that exists between us and in "perfecting our union." It would be stupid to delude ourselves that we are in a post-racial America.

A Law Worth Saving

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


Nicholas Stephanopoulos

The pre-clearance provision is the most powerful weapon against racial discrimination in voting that Congress has ever devised and must be saved.

Barack Obama Stay Home: Health Care Reform Is Dying To Hear From You

Terry Leach | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Terry Leach

Obama, we need your wisdom to elevate the parochial concerns of lawmakers facing re-election next year, to craft something many American presidents have tried to do, without success.

401k Savings: Racial Disparity Seen In Rates

AP | DAVID PITT | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business


DES MOINES, Iowa — A new study of 401(k) plans has revealed that black and Hispanic workers save significantly less for retirement and tap into ...

GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


Seth Freed Wessler

In the economy we've inherited from the last three decades of deregulation and declining union density, people of color are increasingly relegated to low-wage, precarious work that pays too little to support a family.

It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right

Rinku Sen | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


Rinku Sen

Apparently, there's only room for one black man at the highest levels of government taking the nation to task on race.

Black Auto Workers Hit Particularly Hard By Recession

New York Times | Mary M. Chapman | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business


DETROIT -- Since millions of African-Americans began leaving Southern farms for Northern factories nearly a century ago in what is still known as the ...

Obama's Approach To Fighting Crime Actually Based On Research

Heather Tirado Gilligan and Nikki Jones | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home


Heather Tirado Gilligan and Nikki Jones

The Obama/Biden plan is neither abstract nor ideological--it targets the root causes of racial disparity in the criminal justice system in the United States.

The Hidden Treasure of Organic Food ... For Some of Us

Alden Loury | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago


Alden Loury

Grocery stores are pretty sparse in Auburn Gresham, where I live, and many other predominantly black communities on Chicago's South Side.