Black unemployment is the highest of any group in the country, yet one number moved the ‘right’ way this year. The improvement is a statistical illusion — and understanding why reveals both who got pushed out of the workforce and what Black women are building instead.
A viral claim ties Gary, Indiana’s two-week power outage to a supposed 18-month nationwide blackout. The outage is real and NIPSCO’s response deserves scrutiny — but the 18-month figure comes from a 2014 sabotage scenario that has nothing to do with this storm.
James E. West co-invented the electret microphone at Bell Labs more than 60 years ago. Today his design sits inside roughly 90 percent of the two billion microphones made every year — including the one in your hand.
A 2026 March of Dimes report finds 34.6% of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts, with at least 96 labor and delivery units closed since January 2024 — and research shows the closures fall hardest on hospitals serving Medicaid patients and Black families, including in Kern County and the Antelope Valley.
A federal findings letter accuses Duke University School of Law of violating Title VI by using essay questions about diversity and perspective as stand-ins for race — a conclusion Duke can still contest, and one no school on the same enforcement track has yet settled.
Choosing to live in a smaller city with a lower cost of living isn’t always an easy decision. You’ll feel more confident if you see how much you’ll save on food and transport. Never ignore such costs since they add up quickly and can make you spend more even if your rent is affordable.
1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Stephen A. Smith rarely struggles for words. One of the most recognizable voices in sports media, he has built a career on passionate opinions and unfiltered commentary. But when ESPN parted ways with Ryan Clark, Smith’s reaction was strikingly simple.
Inside the dispute that put Invest Fest and Atlanta at odds, the conversations are now focused on working together and community investment.
If you or someone you know has been in a recent auto accident, be aware that hidden car crash injuries can ruin accident insurance claims by invalidating initial statements and breaking direct causal links. Delays in injury discovery can also cause claimants to exceed stringent reporting time limits.
The National Urban League’s 50th State of Black America report says hundreds of thousands of Black men and women have lost jobs since late 2025 — losses the organization estimates cost Black America about $87 billion in income.
Each August, communities from Oakland to the East Coast mark a commemoration that began in 1979 among incarcerated men at San Quentin — a tradition rooted in the deaths of George and Jonathan Jackson, and in a history that remains fiercely contested.
Agents attached to the Memphis Safe Task Force have shot seven people since the operation began, killing four men in roughly two months — a pattern covered heavily by local outlets but only in brief national bursts, according to reporting by the Tennessee Lookout.
Chicago police reported roughly 225,000 traffic stops in 2025 — less than half the 2023 total — yet Black and Latino drivers are still pulled over at far higher rates than white drivers, and new reporting shows more than half of all stops went unrecorded.
A federal judge refused to halt DeSoto County’s new majority-Black judicial subdistricts before November’s election, rejecting a challenge brought by a white former Republican gubernatorial candidate who argues the districts themselves violate the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit continues.
A new ACLU of Iowa report finds Black students and students with disabilities are referred to and arrested by school police at sharply disproportionate rates — a pattern federal data shows nationwide, and one Los Angeles has documented, while Kern County publishes no comparable numbers at all.
Survey data shows Black millennials are three times more likely than baby boomers to be religiously unaffiliated, but most who leave organized religion keep their faith in a higher power — and are building spiritual community elsewhere.
A landmark 2021 Pew Research study found nearly half of Black adults believe Black churches have lost influence since the civil rights era — yet the newest national data shows Black Protestants remain among America’s most observant worshippers. Both findings are true, and the tension between them is the story.
Nearly one year after President Donald Trump ordered thousands of National Guard troops into Washington as part of his “Make DC Safe and Beautiful” initiative, the Pentagon has confirmed the deployment will continue through the remainder of Trump’s presidency, a decision projected to cost taxpayers another $1.4 billion by January 2029.
After a rousing introduction by Stellar New Orleans Attorney James Williams and swearing in by the Legendary Judge Kern Reese, the National Bar Association on July 30, 2026 installed nationally accomplished Trial Attorney and Civic Leader James J. Carter as its 84th President.
