General

There are simple arguments for why so many black women have children without marriage. The legacy of segregation, the logic goes, means blacks are more likely to attend inferior schools. This creates a high proportion of blacks unprepared to compete for jobs in today’s economy, where middle-class industrial work for unskilled laborers has largely disappeared. […]

National

VIA: New York Daily News WASHINGTON – President Obama rejected criticism yesterday that he isn’t doing enough to help black Americans. “Is there grumbling?” Obama said. “Of course, there’s grumbling, because we just went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” Interviewed by American Urban Radio Networks, Obama got defensive when asked to […]