Prison fees in 48 states burden Black women, who often pay for incarcerated loved ones, pushing families into poverty.

A new 16-page issue brief by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies warns that federal industrial policy ...

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...

Tonia McMillian is a retired early educator, a poet, and a grandmother, living in Southern California. She is a child care ...

Concord police are investigating what they described as an "altercation" that occurred Saturday afternoon during a ...

It is often said that poverty births criminals, but Chrissiesmeer, Mpumalanga, birthed gluttons with haikhona appetite.

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

New Orleans lost more than half its psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals in ...

Faye Wilson Kennedy returned to advocating for Sacramento’s poor and unhoused after battling cancer during the pandemic. Her ...

As nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population sweltered under extreme heat advisories on Tuesday, news echoed through Black ...

Linda Welford was raised in London's East End in the 1960s; a tight and tough community with a reputation for a thriving ...

At the center of the controversy is that eight schools rely on a single test for admissions. Most of the students who scored ...