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In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Obama’s decade,” reparations, and Kaepernick. | The Intelligencer

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019African American Activist, African American Author

If the racial politics of the 2010s has a definitive chronicler, it is Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose magisterial 2014 Atlantic essay “The Case for Reparations” forced Americans to reckon with slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining in ways that many of them never had. Since the essay’s publication — which eventually prompted a congressional hearing on the […]

How Sports Agent Nicole Lynn Is Making Major League Money Moves In A Male-Dominated Industry | xoNecole

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019African American Professionals, African American Sports

“The goal is not simply to be accepted. The goal will always be to break stereotypes and shift attitudes towards the presence of women in male-dominated spaces.”

Introducing a New Black-Owned Line of Ready-to-Bake Frozen Cookie Dough | Black Business.com

November 26, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Megan Mottley, a mother, baker, and entrepreneur from Memphis, Tennessee, has recently debuted her line of Goodness Gracious Luxe Cookies frozen cookie dough at a grocery store in her hometown. The cookie dough, which is ready-to-bake, has no preservatives, and has the same taste as her delectable homemade, freshly-baked cookies! [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Mottley has always […]

Opinion: Trump didn’t transform the economy — it’s mostly the same as it was under Obama | MarketWatch

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019African American Economics

But the current president has used a lot of money from the Treasury as stimulus

No Shortage of Need | Baltimore Magazine

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019African American Economics

Homelessness, gross inequities in education, shortages of affordable housing, a lack of job training, few options for underprivileged inner-city youth, and a thriving and deadly drug trade. Are we picking on poor, old, bad-mouthed Baltimore again? Actually, we could be talking about the challenges facing any large American city—check out St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, […]

The strange world of Black Voices for Trump | The Guardian

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019African American Politics

The president only won a paltry 8% of the black vote in 2016, but the organisation has powerful friends – so who are the people on its advisory board?

The Racism Right Before Our Eyes | The New York Times

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

There is implicit bias — and then there is behavior like this.

The Jim Crow South? No, Long Island Today | The New York Times

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

An investigation reveals widespread housing discrimination against blacks and other minorities in New York’s suburbs, more than 50 years after the Fair Housing Act.

Impact and not optics: How we can increase the number of African Americans in medicine | The St. Louis American

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Education, HBCU ...

I am the lead author of a peer-reviewed manuscript that details how U.S. medical school diversity initiatives are leaving us behind. This is a summary of the article, which was published in Academic Medicine, and a call to action to improve our representation and the health of our communities. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] U.S. medical education diversity […]

Housing Discrimination Complaints Reach 24-Year High, While HUD Rolls Back Fair Housing Rules | The Washington Informer

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Commuities, African American Politics

As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised that if elected, deregulation of the federal government would be an administration priority. Soon after taking the oath of office, he issued an executive order requiring all departments and agencies to eliminate two existing regulations for every one new regulation proposed. In some cases, rules that were adopted […]