economic crisis

Race and Data Discrimination in America

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers AssociationFebruary 18, 2021

We all know that African Americans have the largest increase in unemployment before — and even more after the beginning of — the pandemic. African American-owned businesses have had the greatest financial losses amidst COVID-19. The more unemployment in Black America, the more Equifax’s Work Number data is purchased by a wide range of financial status verifiers. But who is monitoring or challenging the accuracy of the Equifax Work Number data especially when it is about African Americans?

Biden Taps Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge for HUD Secretary Post

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentDecember 24, 2020

“We are relieved knowing that the same determination Rep. Fudge brought to defending hungry families from cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be brought to tackle one of the biggest looming threats facing Americans during this economic crisis: evictions and housing insecurity,” The CBC offered in a statement.

National News News (Business)TV

Princell Hair Named President & CEO Of the Black News Channel

July 23, 2020

Hair brings a unique background in diverse platforms including general management, experience leading a national news network, a regional sports business and several local television news departments. He has reimagined programming lineups in his career discovering new, engaging talent, enhancing linear audience reach and vastly growing digital user engagement.

Julianne Malveaux Opinion

The Homelessness Crisis – We Are Better Than This

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire ContributorMarch 12, 2020

There are half a million people, mostly men, mostly white, but way too many African Americans. African Americans are 13 percent of the population and 40 percent of the homeless. The homeless are primarily concentrated in California, New York, Florida, and Texas, but you can find them in almost any community. Two-thirds of the homeless are sheltered on a given night, but a third are sleeping on the streets, on park benches, in alleys, under awnings. To quote the late great Congressman Elijah Cummings, “we are better than this.”