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Black Wall Street to World-Wide Black Prosperity: The Mentality Shift to Get There
With the current state of our Black community, one that is infested with high levels of crime, unemployment & despair, the existence of "Black Wall Street" seems to be only a dream.
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What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means
Everyone from the Fed bank of San Francisco to Kiplinger’s is saying that we may have a “jobless recovery”.
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Black farmers still fighting for fair treatment
To say that Black farmers are getting the run-around in Washington might be something of an understatement. Since 1997 Black farmers have been protesting racial discrimination in loans and access to other services from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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What Do You Expect of Black Students

People will deny this, will say all the right and politic things. But the disclaimers will be as thin and transparent as Saran Wrap. Black, white and otherwise, we are all socialized by the same forces and all carry, by and large, the same unconscious assumptions. One of which is that a certain level of achievement is black and another is white.
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Jobless Rate Surges for Men, Blacks

Male unemployment rose to 10 percent while black unemployment climbed to 15 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The overall U.S. unemployment rate jumped from 8.5 percent in March to 8.9 percent in April.
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More single black women adopting

Women in Alameda County have been big participants as both foster and adoptive parents, but officials working with and for the county cited anecdotal evidence of an increase of single black women over age 40 becoming adoptive parents.
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