Report proposes 10 solutions to close widening racial wealth gap

Wealth disparities between the races cut deep and wide. Blacks lag far behind other races in income and net worth. For every $100 white families make, Blacks earn $59.07, according to U.S. Census estimates. But a new study lays out a wish list of 10 proposals to...

Reparations talk can’t be just political posturing

One after another, Democratic presidential candidates strode across a Manhattan stage at the annual National Action Network conference and proclaimed that if they were elected president they would convene a study on reparations for the descendants of slaves. From...

Smoke and minstrels can’t hide wealth gap

Black and white wealth gap, not the employment numbers, is the real problem. It’s true what President Donald Trump said in May. The 5.9 percent unemployment rate was indeed the lowest number for African Americans ever recorded by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and...