An excerpt from Walter Mosley’s new book, What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace:
When my father sat there in our darkened living room wishing that he could go out and join the melee (of the 1965 Watts Riots), I saw something that it took me many years to work out. He was […]
Unemployment among blacks is rising at a faster pace than in any similar period since the mid-1970’s, and the jobs lost have been mostly in manufacturing, where the pay for blacks has historically been higher than in many other fields.
Nearly 2.6 million jobs have disappeared over all during the last 28 months, which began with […]
MERIDIAN, Miss., July 9 “When he overheard a black man complimenting a white woman a couple of years ago on the factory floor, Doug Williams stepped up to the man and, using a racial slur, angrily told him blacks had no business being with blond women, witnesses recalled today.
When a black colleague complained last month […]