Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Source: NBC News Hundreds of people turned out in Crystal Springs, Miss., to support an African-American couple who says a predominantly white Baptist church where they planned to wed turned them away because of race. The city of Crystal Springs organized the rally to send a [...]
President Obama’s address at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
212,000 private-sector jobs created in December, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.5 percent. Black unemployment was 15.8 percent, up from 15.5 percent. This week, the President announced a plan to create thousands of new jobs for low-income youth in 2012. U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis joined Roland Martin on Washington Watch to [...]
Source: Donna St. George / The Washington Post Across the Washington area, black students are suspended and expelled two to five times as often as white students, creating disparities in discipline that experts say reflect a growing national problem. An analysis by The Washington Post shows the phenomenon both in the suburbs and in the city, from [...]
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