Businesses added 98,000 jobs in March, lower than predicted, and black men 20 years old and older continued to suffer from the nation’s highest unemployment rate. ...

President Trump and most African Americans are off to a terrible start, not surprising given the heavy black vote against him and the atrocious gaffes he and his appointees continue to make regarding nonwhite folks. ...

“This year at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Steve Bannon made it clear that his goal is the “destruction of the administrative state.” I refuse to stand idly by as President Trump allows him to rot our government from the inside out. ...

The convention will be held at Sheraton Times Square (811 7th Avenue @ 52nd Street). It is free and open to the public but registration is required and isolated events are ticketed. ...

  By Frederick H. Lowe Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from NorthStarNewsToday.com (TriceEdneyWire.com) - The U.S. Senate has scheduled a vote this week on the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but the National Bar Association, the nation’s largest organization of black attorneys, judges and law students, has urged the S ...

By Barrington M. Salmon (TriceEdneyWire.com) - The Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King, at the close of Women’s History Month, electrified an audience of men and women at the National Press Club, challenging them to rise above bickering with people with whom they may have political and cultural disagreements and find common ground – including with President Donald Trump. In a speech she called, “What Does the Black Li ...

Trump, in his opening remarks, echoed his campaign trail rhetoric. “Throughout my campaign, I pledged to focus on improving conditions for African American citizens. ...

"I don't think he can just recuse himself and still chair the committee," Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat on the panel, told CNN's Chris Cuomo Tuesday on "New Day. ...

Republicans Say Trump Should Apologize ...

But that only poured salt in the wounds of an already pained community, activists said. Meanwhile, Black lawmakers called for federal investigations, and human sex trafficking survivors ...