Tag: Black

The Associated Press Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is...

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For The Birmingham Times Outside, recordings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches blared over speakers in front of Birmingham Civil...

By Ariel Worthy The Birmingham Times   At age 35, DeJuana Thompson has done enough to last a lifetime. And she’s just beginning. Thompson is partner with ThinkRubix...

By Tiffany Pennamon diverseenducation.com The Nation recently launched a student journalism program that provides training and mentoring opportunities for black student journalists while giving them a...

By Melissa Bailey Kaiser Health News “I’ll deal with it tomorrow. The perpetual tomorrow.” That’s what one person told a pollster, encapsulating how Americans avoid planning ahead for...

By Stuart Miller The Hechinger Report NEWARK, N.J. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Making history.  Simone Askew is making history as the first black woman to lead the Long Grey Line at the...

By Tom Abate Northstar News Today/New America Media   Researchers analyzing data from millions of traffic stops in the United States have found that black and Hispanic...

By David Koenig Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Nobody at Southwest told Louis Freeman he would be the first black pilot in the airline’s history when...

By Jeff Karoub, Sophia Tareen and Noreen Nasir Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - In her job as a refugee case manager, Fatimah Farooq would come...