Student-loan debt is at an all-time high, with both black and white college students borrowing at record levels. But black graduates are much more likely to be saddled with large amounts of debt, according to a new analysis from the Gallup-Purdue Index, which measures the relationship between the college experience and graduates’ lives.
With just four weeks until the midterm elections, access to the polls is unresolved for many voters while others will face new barriers. Wendy Weiser writes in The American Prospect that “for the first time in decades, voters in nearly half the country will find it harder to cast a ballot in the upcoming elections. Voters in 22 states will face tougher rules than in the last midterms.”
By Ta-Nehisi Coates On Thursday, I was at Cornell making the case for reparations. I’ve never written anything that has garnered this much attention, and I confess some bewilderment at…
Prosecutors in Missouri are investigating possible misconduct by the grand jury hearing the case against Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Global income inequality has returned to levels recorded in the 1820s—when the Industrial Revolution produced sizable wealth gaps between the rich and poor
Baltimore, Oct. 1, 2014….A major conference bringing together leaders in the fields of health care, law and social services will kick off a national campaign against human trafficking which has been described as a “horrible form of modern day slavery.”
By Herb Boyd Special to IBW Many of us remember Dowoti Desir when she was the Executive Director of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural…
Has this President’s life been devalued in a way that could even have penetrated the thinking of those who have sworn to protect him?
CHICAGO, IL–On Tuesday, September 23rd, representatives from 25 organizations, armed with the Durban Declaration and Program of Action, met on the corner of 47th Street and Wentworth Avenue as Reparations Enforcers to work to collect $900 million from Norfolk Southern.
President Obama has had a sterling record of winning elections but not an impressive record in getting legislation through the United States Congress.
Each year, around this time, Caribbean leaders join other presidents and prime ministers in convening in New York to participate in the annual United Nations General Debate. And each…
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
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