PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — The LA County Fair is celebrating decades of pop culture and nowhere will it be more in evidence than this weekend with the...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) has been awarded a $3.7 million grant aimed at giving job training and...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Increased wages were strongest for the elite HBCUs: Hampton, Howard, Morehouse, Spelman and Xavier. But the effect persisted 10 years after graduation for...
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Diane Shelton was proud of her professional life. For more than 25 years, she held steady government jobs with the state Assembly as...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — For the first time in U.S. history, people of color — in particular women of color — are the majority of prime working-age hires....
ATLANTA VOICE — In the wake of the housing crash that shook the U.S. economy in the mid- to late 2000s, real estate investors had few borrowing...
THE AFRO — The award-winning creative agency, The Digital Footprint, hosted an interactive financial event called “CapTalk” on Aug. 24. The event, held in Washington D.C....
NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE — Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s Amnesty Late Fee Forgiveness Program saved residents approximately $5.7 million during the three-month effort to clear past-due accounts with parking...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The African American community has been historically undercounted in the census. The Census Bureau estimates that African Americans were undercounted by more than...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — Shelby County Commission approved an ordinance requiring them to pay their employees at least $15 an hour. The order was approved on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The tax, known as the passenger facility charge, is a locally enforced but federally authorized fee that every passenger must pay at U.S....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Of all the issues confronting Americans, none is more basic than that of housing. Whether renting or owning a home, every family needs...
OAKLAND POST — On Tuesday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) continued her work to eradicate poverty in the U.S. by bringing together Bay Area anti-poverty advocates for...
ATLANTA TRIBUNE — The SunTrust Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 Lighting the Way Awards, giving a total of $2.7 million in grants to 36...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — The Department of Economics at Spelman College will develop curriculum and programming to address the scarcity of Black women Ph.D.s in economics....
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Hard to imagine a steaming plate of Nigerian joll of rice without the rice. Or without fish. Or wheat. Rice, fish and wheat...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Candy Moore, the senior vice president and manager of Wells Fargo’s Community Relations and Southeast Community Development, told NNPA Newswire that the company...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — While statistics may paint a grim picture of Black homeownership, a recent event in Baltimore laid out a clear path for turning those numbers...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There are approximately 2.6 million Black-owned businesses in the United States. The number of Black or African American-owned firms grew 34.5 percent between...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — There is no shortage of great business ideas among communities of color but what they have historically lacked is the access to seed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Your home isn’t as energy efficient as you think it is. And if the City of Memphis and MLGW seriously want to ease...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA) is hosting its third annual imerge event Aug. 28, with a theme of “Alabama’s Next First.” This...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — A second major disclosure of major consumer data breach was announced on July 29 by Capital One Bank. That same day, the FBI arrested...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The Federal Reserve has cut the interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point, marking the first such cut in 11 years. The announcement...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Faced with its biennial reauthorization, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program stands in need of a budget increase to serve the needs of a growing...
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