Unemployment Rises For Blacks As It Falls For Everyone Else

Hiring in Dec, pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level

Washington, DC -- A burst of hiring in December pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011....

African Americans & Heart Disease

Greater Diversity News’ Heart Disease Special Publication

Greater Diversity News’ Heart Disease Special Publication
What is Heart Disease and Why Does it Occur? Coronary heart disease is the most common form of heart disease. It is a disorder of the blood vessels of t...

Wealth Disparities Likely to Grow

A widening gap between the mega-rich and the rest of society

A widening gap between the mega-rich and the rest of society, documented in a recent congressional study, is likely to create even larger economic disparities between African-Americans and Whites....

U.S. Department of Education Investigates Increased Civil Rights Complaints

mprove the quality of education for minority and poor public school students

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to improve the quality of education for minority and poor public school students by aggressively launching civil rights investigations aimed at preventing ......

Racial Segregation Continues, and Even Intensifies

Written by Richard Rothstein

"Manhattan Institute report heralding the 'end' of segregation uses a measure that masks important demographic and economic trends." In a study released this week, two Manhattan Institute researchers heralded the “end of the segregated century.” Harvard professor Edward Glaeser and Duke professor Jacob Vigdor showed that African American segregation levels have now declined to their lowest point since 1920, just after the beginning of the “Great Migration” of rural sharecroppers from the South to Northern industrial metropolitan regions.

Unemployment Rises For Blacks As It Falls For Everyone Else

Washington, DC -- A burst of hiring in December pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011. The Labor Department said Friday that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since February 2009. The rate has dropped for four straight months. But black unemployment rose again from 15.5 to 15.8 percent overall and from 39.6 to 42.1 among African-American teens.

Stopping the Rush to War against Iran

A growing group of individuals and organizations has designated Saturday, February 4, as a “National Day of Action” aimed at preventing a war against Iran. The manifesto is simple: “No War, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No Assassinations.”

Justice, anyone: Book explores how the American judicial system perpetuates discrimination

The recently published Race Justice: Judicial Atrocities Committed Against People of Color by Rogers Hicks is sobering reading for individuals from every ethnic and socio-economic background.

Perceptions of Dominance Depend on Leaders’ Race and Gender

DURHAM, N.C. -- A significant body of research has shown that white female leaders are viewed negatively when they display assertiveness, dominance or anger. But do black female leaders suffer the same consequences for similar behavior?

U.N. to Probe Missing and Murdered Native Women

U.N.-to-Probe-Missing-and-Murdered-Native-Women As a United Nations committee initiates an inquiry procedure into the alarming number of missing and murdered Native women across Canada, human rights groups are hoping that an on-the- ground investigation by the international body will finally help stem systematic violence against Native women.

CAP Experts Available to Preview State of the Union Address and how Communities of Color will be affected

Washington, D.C. — Over the weekend, the Obama campaign previewed Tuesday’s State of the Union address as an opportunity for the president to lay out a blueprint to “build an economy that works for everyone, not just a wealthy few.”

A Jobs-Centered Approach to African American Community Development

Millions of African Americans live in communities that lack access to good jobs and good schools and suffer from high crime rates. African American adults are about twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, black students lag their white peers in educational attainment and achievement, and African American communities tend to have higher than average crime rates. These issues have been persistent problems.

Hiring in Dec, pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level

Greater Diversity News’ Heart Disease Special Publication

A widening gap between the mega-rich and the rest of society

mprove the quality of education for minority and poor public school students

Racial Segregation Continues, and Even Intensifies

Unemployment Rises For Blacks As It Falls For Everyone Else

Stopping the Rush to War against Iran

Justice, anyone: Book explores how the American judicial system perpetuates discrimination

Perceptions of Dominance Depend on Leaders’ Race and Gender

U.N. to Probe Missing and Murdered Native Women

CAP Experts Available to Preview State of the Union Address and how Communities of Color will be affected

A Jobs-Centered Approach to African American Community Development

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