One of the most insidious forms of racial discrimination and injustice is the growing manifestation known as racially motivated “economic segregation.” Across the United States during the eight years of the Bush administration between 2001 and 2008, banking and mortgage companies were systematically deregulated. ...

When I was in the process of reading and writing about Nielsen and the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s report on African-American buying power for this week’s Black newspapers, I was reminded of how many top companies continue to take advantage of Black consumers while providing little, if anything, in return. ...

Last week, we learned that African American unemployment rates stayed level last month, with an absurdly high official unemployment rate of 14.1 percent. Unemployment rates for African American men fell, while those for African American women rose. These rates are way too high and understate the extent of pain that exists in the African American community. ...

One of the main themes in the political conventions was centered on how hard it was for the speakers’ families, their parents and grandparents, and how they struggled to make it. ...

Samuel Nixon, Dorothy Armstrong, Jessie Spicer Jr, Marian E. Walker, Celeste Robinson, Nolan Young, Hosea Richardson ...

Dorothy Mae Rouse Sidbury, Joseph Shaw, Jr., , Callie Bell Moore, Annie Mae Midgett, Elsie Marie Frink Siler, Quince Leon Moore, Huey James Boykin, Bertlene Wright Dixon, Nolan Young ...

Next year this nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 2013. ...

IF REPUBLICANS WIN NC, SPEAKER PROMISES VOTER I.D. [TAMPA, FLA.] If the GOP wins the governor's race, and holds on to its majority in the NC General Assembly, then voter ID will pass, assured NC House Speaker Thom Tillis during the North Carolina delegation breakfast at the Republi-can National Convention this week. Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, vetoed the first bill passed by the GOP in the NC General A ...

The third most powerful African-American in Congress says that in their zeal to stop President Barack Obama’s agenda, congressional Republicans were “disloyal” to the nation. ...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington announced last week that local businesswoman Wilma Daniels has made a gift to the university to help fund an initial year of programming for the Wilma Daniels Distinguished Lecture Promoting Diversity & Tolerance. Daniels is a member of the UNCW Board of Trustees. ...