Philadelphia's entrenched racial wealth gap did not occur by chance, but by design. Addressing it means asking: Who stewards ...

No restitution was ever made to those who lost loved ones or property in the 1921 massacre that razed the prosperous Black ...

It’s certainly true that Black children in the US are much more likely to be poor than white individuals. We see that clearly ...

pointed out that Ferguson was “emblematic” of the wave of rising poverty in the suburbs of all of America’s 100 largest metropolitan centres, suburbs both mostly white and mostly black.

Poverty rate (full weight): The percentage ... The struggle for economic equity remains a persistent challenge for Black women in America, who have historically faced systemic wage disparities ...

This results in Black children in America suffering disproportionately from poor health ... never attend college and be arrested for a violent crime – perpetuating the cycle of poverty. Black children ...

Oxfam exposes the realities of life for working poor people and offers pragmatic solutions to policies that trap families in poverty, prioritizing the Southeastern states and promoting the leadership ...

No piece of prose did more to make plain the atrocity of poverty in an age of affluence. Ostensibly a review of Michael Harrington’s book The Other America, which had all but disappeared since ...

A contributor to the factually challenged 1619 Project attempts to tackle the problem of poverty in the U.S. The ... productivity increase of enslaved blacks. Now, in a recent New York Times ...

Director Monica Strømdahl’s “Flophouse America” provides a visceral documentation of poverty in America ... flash in simple white text on a black screen. Then a young man appears in ...