Black poverty

Black households earned 61 cents for every dollar of White median incomes

Charlene CrowellSeptember 10, 2020

The August 23 police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, WI, triggered yet another round of community protests and national news coverage of a Black man. A series of multiple gunshots fired by a local police officer, were not fatal for 29-year old Jacob Blake; but may have permanently paralyzed him from the waist down.

Op-Ed

The Urgency of Now : Black Workers and Public Sector Jobs

Reverend James LawsonMarch 2, 2020

We must recognize that elected officials in Los Angeles have an awesome power to provide our communities with dignity and lift people from homelessness by sufficiently investing resources into Targeted Local Hire, a proven equitable program.

Debate Heats Up Over South African ‘White Privilege’

Global Information NetworkMay 9, 2018

Members of the opposition Democratic Alliance are reportedly squabbling over a casual remark by the head of the party, Mmusi Maimane, who observed that White privilege and Black poverty were critical issues that needed to be addressed.