Just over four years ago, on August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was murdered by police officer Darren Wilson. He was shot six times, and might have survived some of the shots, but was fatally wounded by a bullet in the head. Wilson claimed he shot ...
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – “The equity gap is calculated not just on the basis of what the black female corporate lawyer makes, compared with her counterpart within the firm, but it looks at the median average salary … What is really bringing that w ...
Please excuse me for not welling up with empathy for those who are addicted to opioids. Yeah, I know drug addiction is a bad thing, but people make choices and have to live with the consequences. I am old enough to have lived through the crack epidemic of ...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is featured in a video along with celebrities Tom Hanks, Janelle Monáe, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Lin-Manuel Miranda to encourage people to register and vote. In less than 100 days, the midterm elections that will either ...
Earlier this year, a man named Jack Weldon Patrick passed away in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. A long-time lawyer, Patrick was remembered as a family man, an advocate for social justice, and a respected community leader. One day a check arrived by mail for ...
Without being given much direction, Black youth have seemingly taken matters into their own hands, relative to their future here in America, by strategizing, organizing and mobilizing. Whether on social media or through community activism in the streets, ...
As the world changes and evolves, one of the things in life that remains constant throughout time is the social gap that exists between the older and younger generations. Older generations constantly ridicule the younger generation for their perceived lac ...
In a blistering response to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that revealed federal agencies spend very little advertising dollars with minority-owned businesses, D.C. Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said that she w ...
Oftentimes, when the Black community is faced with criticism relating to certain negative stereotypes and stigmas we tend to leap to our own defense and claim they are experiencing racism without fully analyzing the overall situation in question, or the s ...
How often do we hear messages about the amount of money Black people spend every year as consumers? In a recent report by Nielsen titled Black Dollars Matter: The Sales Impact of Black Consumers, the message was once again highlighted: While African Ameri ...
