Tag: Black People

Black Caucus issues new guidelines for DEI policies and urges firms to help reduce racial wealth gap

WASHINGTON -- Corporate policies meant to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace are legal and should be expanded to promote broad economic...

Are convention viewing numbers a hint about who will win the election? Don't bet on it

NEW YORK -- In a close election campaign with both sides looking for an edge, the party with more people watching their midsummer...

She didn't see her Black heritage in crossword puzzles. So she started publishing her own

NEW YORK -- It started a couple of years ago when Juliana Pache was doing a crossword puzzle and got stuck.She was unfamiliar...

In Louisiana's Cancer Alley, company cancels plans for grain export facility in historic Black town

WALLACE, La. -- Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who've spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to...

Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools' endowments

NEW YORK -- Michael Bloomberg’s organization Bloomberg Philanthropies is announcing a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools....

Oakland A's to sell stake in Coliseum to local Black development group

SAN FRANCISCO -- The departing Oakland Athletics has reached a tentative agreement to sell its half of the Coliseum to a private Black...