African-American kids from rich families are more likely to go to prison than White kids from underprivileged households.
Roland Martin and NewsOne Now took an in-depth look at Sunday night's CNN/TV One Democratic Town Hall.
Rep. Conyers, a Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, explained, “The number of high poverty urban neighborhoods in the nation’s largest cities have tripled over the last 40 years.”
Following a heightened interest in law enforcement reform, some police officers are paying the price for abusing their authority.
While poverty rates have decreased for White and Asian families, Black children are more likely to live in poverty than children of other races, a…
There are 45 million Americans living in poverty in the United States. And as many of us know, poverty is not color blind. During this…
California residents are currently battling a record-breaking drought, but that hasn’t stopped some of its richest residents from demanding their lawns be put first when…
A study of 100 American cities, facilitated by Measure of America (an initiative of the Social Science Research Council), found that segregation is still affecting…
In a recent article for American Banker titled Lessons from Baltimore: ‘Middle-Class Folks Don’t Riot,’ John Hope Bryant, President and CEO of Operation Hope, wrote: “Our goal as…
In an effort to help tackle issues of poverty pushed to the forefront recently by President Barack Obama, advocates for the poor are urging him to…
