Explore how the black economy operates, its legal and illegal activities, and how it affects society. Learn about its hidden costs, benefits, and role in global markets.

A new biography of Audley Moore shows how pivotal the overlooked activist’s work was to 20th-century Black-liberation efforts ...

Discover the history and impact of Black Thursday, Oct. 24, 1929, the day that triggered the Stock Market Crash and led to ...

The New York Times examined data from 18 of the nation’s top law schools and found that first-year Black enrollment had ...

At the National Black Growers Council meeting in New Orleans, Black farmers respond to the $12 billion in tariff relief announced by the Trump administration and outline challenges farms are facing.

Black Lives Matter protests have opened up conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the lived experiences and identities of black people in America. Now, the distinction between ...

Black men had been perceived as a voting bloc ripe for Donald Trump to attract after many expressed concerns a year ago about Joe Biden’s re-election efforts. An NBC News poll at that time showed that ...

Black people in the United States are more likely to develop certain conditions or have worse outcomes from those conditions. The reasons for this are often some combination of genetic, social, and ...

Perry is a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and is the author of the book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities In August 2022, the Centers for Disease ...

There are a number of different claims as to the origin of the term Black Irish, none of which are possible to entirely prove or disprove. The term "Black Irish" has been in circulation among Irish ...

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, ...