African Americans – Page 2

Is the Trump economy actually that good for Black Americans?

February 26, 2020 By Jamie Buell And Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

Unemployment may be down for many black Americans, and wages are up -- but the wealth gap remains.

Civil Rights Movement memories: Marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965

February 7, 2020 By Juan Lopez

The experiences of witnessing Jim Crow in Houston in the mid-fifties, soon after migrating with my parents and sister from Buenos Aires, were forever implanted in my conscience. Doing whatever necessary to help eradicate the U.S....

Former Detroit Daily World reporter on the legacy of Rep. John Conyers

October 28, 2019 By Geoffrey Jacques

There seemed to be no such thing as a progressive cause that didn't have his name on it: from Medicare for All to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday.

“Stand up for this democracy”: My congressman, Elijah Cummings

October 18, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

I covered Cummings as a correspondent for People's Weekly World in Washington, D.C., and interviewed him more than once.

Lawmaker: African-Americans battle backlash to challenges to power structure

September 17, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

“Racism is dangerous, but race ignorance is dangerous, too.”