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Three years after publishing “The Truth in Black and White,” this is how The Star has changed, and where we still see that there is work for our newsroom to do to improve.
This is especially true for African American men. Consider life expectancy at birth: a dismal 69.7 years for black men, compared to 75.7 for white men. (Black and white women’s life expectancies are ...
Police Chief Freddie Blackmon was accused of not promoting the white officers due to their race. Georgia's Columbus City Council unanimously voted to settle the 2022 lawsuit with $600,000.
From the FBI's Universal Crime Report in 2014; 90% of Black people killed were killed by other Black people and 14.8% of white people killed were killed by Black people.
Sharan White-Jenkins is a proud Black homeowner in Jamaica, Queens, in New York City. She’s part of a line of homeowners that goes back to her grandparents, who purchased a home on the Virginia ...
Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color—and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.
A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
In April of 2022 Black and white employees were $12,000 apart. Now they are $14,000 apart, with Black employees earning a median pay of $61,703 a year, compared to white employees making $75,549.