When posed that question, Dr. Lori Martin, a professor of African and African American ... gap of the cities analyzed, with Black women earning only over a third of what white men make.
A group of Black mayors and officials from two dozen of the nation's biggest cities will meet in Memphis this week to share ...
A new monthly content series from UATL — the AJC’s Black culture franchise — will shed light on the reality (or mirage) behind this question.
The move comes as congressional Republicans threaten to revoke federal funding if the plaza is not repainted and renamed.
WASHINGTON – The shrill, metallic banging noises of a jack hammer echoed around the White House on Monday as crews started ...
Many whites still wished to see Louis defeated by a white boxer, but in 1938, when Louis knocked out the German, the celebration wasn't confined to black America alone. For the first time ...
In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower emphatically told the nation that the American ... looks like the white man wants me to sleep under the bed. Back in the days of slavery, black folks couldn ...
Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and ... earlier as the nation’s first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several years, according ...