Many Black Americans not over real estate crash Photo credit: Bloomberg News | The windows of a house are boarded-up with plywood in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, Ill. Almost one in 10 Roseland properties is vacant and the area's home ownership rate fell to 57 percent in 2010 from 64 pe... Read more...
With 32 million Black Americans in U.S., Black males entering medical school fewer than 32 year ago Fewer Black males were enrolled in the first year of medical schools last year than 32 years ago, a trend that, if left uncorrected, could hamper efforts to provide quality health care to underse... Read more...
#LanaSpeaks: REcap of #Ignite2012 (#IgnitePhilly) [PHOTOS] “Well, should Obama be the president of Black America?” –This question has been raised increasingly since the 2008 Presidential election, and it was now being posed to a group of writers, entertainment personalities, and hip-hop art... Read more...
Recently the U.S. Census Bureau reported what much of Black America already knows: Black people in America are not just poor by American standards; many of us are third-world poor. The story of Black economics in 2012 is one of massive wealth loss because of the national foreclosure debacle and th... Read more...
The lack of response to globalization by Black America is frightening and troubling. While much of the world has adapted to the new-world economy and new-world standards of existence, most of Black America is still operating much the same way it did in the 1950s and 1960s. But now, throughout Blac... Read more...
...like Trayvon Martin America loves Black men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and even Trayvon Martin - after they are dead... TRAYVON MARTIN is more valuable to America as a dead young black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son ... Read more...
What will America do with 36 million Black Americans now that there is no more cotton to pick? Even in states like Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, Black people are not involved in the planting, growing or harvesting of cotton. This is now done by White and Latino men and women who drive ma... Read more...
As bad as the last recession has been for Blacks in America, recovery might be worse. In the absence of federal policy interventions and without an effective "trickle-up" stimulus plan, Blacks will not only have lost ground during this recession, they will also continue to lose ground during and aft... Read more...