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Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter The National Association of Realtors’ 2025 Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America reports that Black homeownership in the U.S. saw the highest year-over-year increase among racial groups in 2023. However, the Black homeownership rate continues to lag significantly behind that of White homeowners. This real […]
Just over a quarter (26%) of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to date. In continuation of a long-running trend, this is the eighth Congress to break the record set by the one before it. […]
Regrettably racial violence has been a distinct part of American history since 1660. While that violence has impacted almost every ethnic and racial group in the United States, it has had a particularly horrific effect on African American life. Listed below are some of the major incidents of racial violence profiled on BlackPast.org. They range […]
Douglas Mason / Contributor / Getty Images During the 2011 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference, April 30th was proclaimed as “International Jazz Day.” According to the
Home Buying The road to purchasing a home runs uphill for many prospective buyers, but for those of color, the grade is steeper. “The current rate of Black homeownership is significantly lower than its peak level achieved in 2004, when it surpassed 49 percent,” according to a report from the National Association of Real Estate […]
Underscoring the backwards meaning of “Make America Great Again,” the Trump administration is touting the president’s executive order terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government as the “most important federal civil rights measure in decades.” The saying “history repeats itself” is particularly fitting in our current moment, because the reality is […]
Housing experts say it doesn’t have to be that way. The road to homeownership runs uphill for many prospective buyers, but for those of color, the grade is steeper. The good news is: with hard work, discipline, patience, and the right coaching, many renters who don’t think they can achieve their goal of becoming homeowners […]
A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias during jury selection, potentially opening the door to death row inmates throughout the state getting resentenced. The decision follows a landmark hearing last year brought by
NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday. In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A lawsuit filed this week accuses the University of California of racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Latino students over Asian American and white applicants. A group called Students Against Racial Discrimination sued Monday in federal court, alleging the university system admits students with inferior academic credentials at […]