Chicago Park District Opens Summer Job Applications in Time for First of Four Teen Opportunity Fairs for Ages 13 & Up 
Former Mayor Calls for Accuracy in Water Crisis Narrative 
Marketplace With All Black-Owned Products Celebrates One Year in Business 
Two-Thirds of Black Consumers Pay More Attention to Ads That Reflect Their Culture 
Major George W. Ford Exhibit to Open During Black History Month at Temecula Valley Museum 
Community March for NuNu, Killed Saturday by Chicago Police
Family and friends of NuNu and of other victims of Chicago Police violence will join community members to demand answers...
Retail Panel on Racial Profiling Convenes at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The Retail Symposium on Shopping Equity Brings Retailers, Community Leaders, and Law Enforcement Officials Together at Forum about Race and...
NAACP Statement on Gov. Nikki Haley’s Call for the Removal of the Confederate Flag on Capitol Ground
BALTIMORE, MD – On Monday, June 22nd, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the Confederate battle flag to be...
Former Financial Icon Clark Burrus dead at 86
By Chinta Strausberg Funeral services will be held 12 Noon Thursday, June 25, 2015, at the Congregational Church of Park...
Columbia University to Divest From Private Prisons
Student Organizing Results in Columbia University Becoming First to Divest from Private Prison Industry On Monday June 22nd, following sixteen...
Just Say No To Fast Track Rally Today at the Dirksen Federal Building
Beginning at 9:30 A.M., June 23, 2015 and continuing preferably through the cloture vote on Fast Track trade authority, currently...
Revealing Black Men on Father’s Day: By Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters
It is time to reclaim Father's Day, and in so doing celebrate what we are actually doing and what we...
Jesse, Jonathan Jackson Called Charleston 9 Murders “Domestic Terrorismâ€
By Chinta Strausberg Calling the killing of the nine black members of the Emanuel A.M.E. church by 21-year-old Dylan Roof...
Urban League Launches “One Nation, One Flag” Campaign in Support of Effort to Remove Confederate Flag
NEW YORK -- The National Urban League and its South Carolina affiliates today launched the “One Nation, One Flag†campaign...
The American Dream on Hold: Economic Challenges in the African American Community
Congressional Black Caucus and Joint Economic Committee Democrats Hold Public Forum and Press Conference in Baltimore WASHINGTON, D.C. – A...