March 15 was National Pay Equity Day. It's the day when women have to work into a new year to earn the same amount that men earned in the...

The Federal Reserve Bank, founded in 1913, has had more than one hundred members of its Board of Governors. Forty-four white men governed...

Zora Neale Hurston has been calling out to Black women since she started writing, collecting our folklore, insisting on our presence. ...

All too often, the Congressional Black Caucus gets a bad rap. What do they do, many ask. What have they recently accomplished? Are they...

How should we commemorate Black History Month? Should corporations, universities, and nonprofit organizations bring in speakers, beat...

The amazing attorney, law professor, lawyer, author, and activist made her transition on January 7, 2022, even as Black folks and our...

A year ago, on January 6, 2021, a mob of crazed insurrectionists descended on the United States Capitol. Armed, angry and bent on...

According to MasterCard's spending reports, consumers spent more than 10 percent more than they did in 2019 before the COVID pandemic...

The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced HR 40 every congressional session from...

Our nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) is a function of consumer spending. We are prodded, cajoled, enticed, and engaged in the...

Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton are doing the right thing when attending the Amaud Arbery trial. They demonstrate the solidarity...

Black women leaders have been working on this issue of voting rights, calling for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the...

Despite rising inflation and legislative drama, some economists are touting the latest jobs numbers as a cause for celebration. And...

It was great to see President Barack Obama in Richmond, Virginia, campaigning with former governor and current gubernatorial candidate...

Walking down a busy urban street, one cannot help but notice the number of “help wanted” signs that grace the front of many...

Not a day goes by that I don’t get a text or three from the Democratic National Committee asking for contriubtions. Sometimes they come...

One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’s Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A. Robert Phillips, who led...

I had not planned to have a policy conversation when I boarded my connecting flight from Detroit to DC. But the young white woman,...

When California governor Gavin Newsom woke up on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, I hope he fell to his knees and said, "Thank you, God,...

So you are sitting on a park bench, just enjoying the weather. What is the likelihood that the next person that walks by you is of a...