With a rising tide of tension surging between police officers and the Black community, the #BlackLivesMatter protests and the unfortunate series of events surrounding it…
President Barack Obama recently announced his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative for young Black men. Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett talks to ”The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” in this exclusive interview…
via: defendernetwork.com Black and Latino students may be getting less critical, but helpful, feedback from teachers than their white counterparts, a new educational study indicates. “The social implications of these results are important; many minority students might not be getting input from instructors that stimulates intellectual growth and fosters achievement,” study researcher Kent Harber, a […]
(CNN) The mortgage meltdown is hitting the African-American and Latino communities harder than whites, a new study has found. Of borrowers who took out mortgages between 2005 and 2008, some 8% of both African-American and Latino borrowers have lost their homes to foreclosure, compared to 4.5% of non-Hispanic whites, according to a study by the […]
