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Persisting inequality has made many young South Africans question the choices made by Nelson Mandela

Young jobless South African graduates protest outside the Union Buildings, the seat of government, in Pretoria. Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images via Getty Images by Gemma Ware, The...

Wages up as Americans are encouraged back to work and into the office

“Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s back to work we go.” Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images – 3 takeaways from the latest jobs report by Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha After a...

Black Americans have everything to lose in this election

  By Svante Myrick, Mayor of Ithaca, New York As the mayor of a city in New York, every day I wake up and do what...

We know what we have to do beyond the 2020 elections

by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—No matter what the outcome of the 2020 election, there remains much work to do. Our economy is wrong-sided, and we have...

NUL Report: Black America remains in crisis

WASHINGTON (NPA)—When it comes to the equality in America, a new report by the National Urban League says that Blacks are missing nearly 30...

Record number of former workers without benefits

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With no federal unemployment insurance and rapidly disappearing state coverage, the percentage of people benefiting from unemployment insurance is at its...

Surge of hiring cuts US jobless rate to 5.9 pct.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in hiring last month helped drive the nation's unemployment rate down to a six-year low of 5.9 percent —...

Blacks having tougher time recovering from recession

WASHINGTON (NNPA) —The unemployment rate for Blacks (11.4 percent) and Whites (5.3 percent) remained unchanged from July to August, but the fact that Black...

Blackonomics…Blacks have become obsolete

(NNPA)—A series of recent reports cite the drastic lack of economic progress for Black people in general and Black men in particular. Freddie Allen,...

Stronger U.S. job gains pointing to stronger economy

WASHINGTON (AP)—The 5-year-old U.S. recovery is gaining momentum from a surprisingly robust job market and moving the economy closer to full health. Employers added 288,000...

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