By MICHAEL D. TUBBS , CHOKWE ANTAR LUMUMBA , MELVIN CARTER , RAS J. BARAKA , AJA BROWN , ERIC GARCETTI , ADRIAN PERKINS , LIBBY SCHAAF , STEPHEN BENJAMIN , KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS & VICTORIA R. WOODARDS, TIME In 1967, against a backdrop of massive civil unrest, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? and called for the immediate abolition of poverty. In the richest nation in the world, King saw […]
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HBCU Money’s 2019 African American Owned Bank Directory | HBCU Money
Travis Loller, Associated Press, HBCU Money Dr. James Hildreth dissects a frog Friday, March 29, 2019, with seventh grader Keyshawn Walker at the Haynes Middle Health/Medical Science Design Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Travis Loller). Featured Image [dropcap]NASHVILLE[/dropcap], Tenn. (AP) — The number of African-American men entering medical school hasn’t budged since the late 1970s, […]
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The Supreme Court Justice Who Forever Changed Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
Justice Lewis Powell’s ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.
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Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage Is a Brilliant Business Strategy | The Atlantic
Why increasing the pay floor —and urging the federal government to do the same—is a moral and strategic masterstroke by Jeff Bezos
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The Other Black Wall Streets | The Root
Between the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction, there were many black communities that thrived economically solely based on the black dollar.
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Develop Detroit cultivates affordable housing in the Motor City | Michigan Chronicle
Since its inception in June, 2015, Develop Detroit, which received startup capital from JPMorgan Chase, has been on a mission that focuses on real estate development and providing living opportunities that meet the real needs of Detroiters.
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How it became a crime to be poor in America | The Guardian
In the United States, a system of modern peonage – essentially, a government-run loan shark operation – has been going on for years
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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects | Black Perspectives
Policymakers assumed that if men were in the home, poor women on welfare would inevitably have more children and cost taxpayers more money. So by 1959, women headed the majority of households in Pruitt-Igoe.
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The Industry Where Black Women Earn 42 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by a White Man – The Nation
Organizing within the food-supply chain is only going to get more important under a Trump presidency.
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The Financial Consequences of Saying ‘Black,’ vs. ‘African American’
People make vastly different assumptions about salary, education, and social status depending on which phrase is used.
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