23+ hour, 41+ min ago   (154+ words) A comprehensive review of macroeconomic data, civil rights enforcement, and historical narratives reveals a coordinated, multi-front assault on Black progress, marking an unprecedented regression in modern Black American history. The data is being interpreted through two entirely different, irreconcilable frameworks....

1+ day, 45+ min ago   (303+ words) Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya talked a big game online, then vanished the second the spotlight hit. Now her department chair, Rémi van Compernolle, has done the same disappearing act. Anya’s “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (414+ words) A new biography by Cornell literature scholar George Hutchinson examines how Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer's ideas about race shaped his fiction, public identity and personal struggles. Hutchinson's book argues that Toomer sought an American identity beyond the racial categories…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1263+ words) Ohio State University Professor Steven Brown is no stranger to making headlines. In 2013, he was feted for developing a project to help donations flow to poverty-stricken countries. In 2023, he was touted for earning OSU’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. A…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (279+ words) Half of Black Americans Describe Themselves as “Working Class” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Half of Black Americans Describe Themselves as “Working Class” Overall, White adults (62 percent) are the most likely group to agree that working class describes…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (530+ words) Campaign Finance Report - Watchdog Group Justice Clarence Thomas is Black. Someday, like every human being, he will die. But between birth and death, Thomas’s extraordinary journey from poverty in segregated Georgia to the Supreme Court of the United States illustrates…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (260+ words) The headline Black unemployment rate fell to 6.0% in August—but the drop is driven not by job creation, but by hundreds of thousands of workers giving up on the search. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1095+ words) Labor leaders and lawmakers warn changes to federal agencies, jobs and worker safeguards could have a disproportionate impact on Black employees. As Americans commemorate the Labor Day holiday, Black workers are facing significant barriers in the workplace as a result…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (498+ words) Unless you have lived through it, it is easy to dismiss as racial paranoia the wariness and discomfort felt by many successful business leaders of color who have reached the elite ranks of the business world. But African Americans and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (605+ words) When the Left in America first started harping about the term 'systemic racism,' it was easy and tempting to pass it off as just another desperate attempt to further divide America from a party that has nothing else to offer....