President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an initiative he said will give African-American students greater access "to a complete and competitive education from the time they're born all through the time they get a career."
Plaxico Burress announces he's joining forces with the National Urban League to reduce gun violence.
African-Americans are faring slightly worse relative to their white counterparts than they did last year, according to an index released Thursday by the National Urban League.
CNN producer Leinz Vales sat down with Paterson, NJ Mayor Jeffrey Jones to discuss black history and black unemployment.
The foreclosure crisis has hit blacks harder than any other group in America and it will be tough for them to regain their footing in the housing market.
Pundits and politicians alike opine that Washington has not been focused enough on jobs, and President Obama sought to expand the jobs agenda Thursday at the National Urban League in a speech on education.
Pres. Obama addresses the Race to the Top inititive at the National Urban League's 100th Anniversary convention.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that Shirley Sherrod "deserves better than what happens last week when a bogus controversy ... led to her forced resignation."
LaShonda Durden had just given birth to her second child. She was two weeks back from maternity leave when her supervisor called her into her office.
They're not going to like this.
While the country celebrates the first black president, African-Americans are facing critical challenges from high unemployment, home foreclosures and a record number of black men in prison.
Tony Harris talks with Essence editor Angela Burt-Murray about interview with Michelle Obama and her mother.
If tuition stays the same, an undergraduate living on campus will have spent $33,720 on tuition alone after eight semesters at Kent State.
The following is a list of local and national organizations and programs designed to address many of the issues raised in "CNN Presents: Black in America" and "CNN & Essence: Reclaiming the Dream." Some of the people or guests featured in the programs are involved in some of these organizations.
Dear FSB: Way back when, there were low-interest rate loans from the government for women and minorities in small business. They no longer exist, business advisors say. Why is this? I am an older woman in business and find it all but impossible to get a loan.
With Hispanics being the nation's largest minority group, the general assumption among many political and social pundits is that they will align themselves with African-Americans to represent a potent political force on the local, state and national level.
He would surely make history. But would Sen. Barack Obama's election as America's first black president transform the nation? Obama says yes.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the people who were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are evidence that race and poverty can still come together "in a very ugly way" in parts of the "Old South."
IT'S BEEN 40 YEARS since Congress passed Title VII, which banned workplace discrimination based on sex, race, color, or creed, and today scarcely a major company in the land lacks a policy on workp...
In March, Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, approached FORTUNE with the idea of publishing one or more stories about African Americans in business to coincide with the 87-year-old...
Regular readers of FORTUNE may well react with a classic double-take upon first spying this issue's triple-fold-out cover. To put it candidly, some may well ask: "What are all those black people do...
Tony Burns, CEO of Ryder System, recently joined some distinguished company: tennis great Arthur Ashe and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ron Brown. All three men won the Equal Opportunity D...
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