Recent clashes in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray have shined yet another light on the mounting tensions between black communities and police in America's cities. But it is far from the ...

On average, black households had $8,762 in cash or equivalent liquid assets compared with $49,529 for white households, according to government data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute.

One source of that tension is the large financial gap between black and white Americans ... while fewer than one in 10 whites do. The economic situation in Ferguson mirrors the national picture ...

The typical white family in America has 10 times the wealth of a typical black family—a figure that has barely changed in two decades and has actually widened in the current economic expansion.

When the economy strengthens, meanwhile, Black workers often access jobs only after their white counterparts, Weller said. As demand for workers grows and the supply ebbs, employers turn to Black ...

Economic recovery and white supremacy are the top issues Black voters want U.S. leaders to address, according to a series of bimonthly surveys from Black to the Future Action Fund and ...

Once the economic recovery was underway, beginning in the third quarter of 2009, the white employment rate began falling in March 2010 while the black unemployment rate has not yet begun to decline.

The unemployment rate among black Americans was 87% higher than for whites. It has taken over two years for the economy to recover ... spread between black and white jobless rates goes back ...

The war in Gaza was sparked by an attack on Israel by Hamas militants.The art of coexistence, today’s editorial on Syria observes, starts with humble desires to empower one another. It takes ...

resulting in “white” areas that are experiencing rapid growth, while other areas remain “black” and under developed. My warning was that the WA economy was at risk of becoming a “Zebra ...