What we needed to do was simple and many ways remains the same today,” says Governor Rick Scott, in his 2013 State of the State Address
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An open letter to Dr. Ben Carson
But what may shock many people is this: before the rise of the plantation economy in the mid-1600s, Blacks in America enjoyed many of the same rights as whites, the two races socializing and working together
The hurtful words flowed from the lips of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during oral arguments on February 27 in the case of Shelby County v. Holder in which the court will decide the future of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
We must take the urgency of now very seriously
A deeper examination of the unemployment data shows the disappointing reality that African American unemployment rates remained level, at 13.8 percent
It is time to stop, look at the books and reform our system of economic development incentives. With increased transparency, taxpayers will have an opportunity to oversee our investments, to advocate these programs’ expansion or call for their repeal.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires jurisdictions with a history of voting
But, as we know, the rich and institutions they control are treated differently
After Brandeis University’s Institute on Assets and Policies traced 1,700 working Americans households over 25 years, the researchers found that the wealth gap between White and Black families nearly tripled, increasing from $85,000 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009.