The house where playwright August Wilson was born, in 1945, is a landmark in the Hill District, perhaps Pittsburgh's own most renowned Black "city within a city." One takeaway from historian Joe ...

In New York City, accumulating wealth is many times more difficult for Latino and Black New Yorkers, according to a recent report by the Robin Hood Foundation. The report found that nearly half of ...

The right-wing push to hike the social security retirement age is a warning siren to New York’s communities of color. More low income workers—who in New York City are disproportionately of color—would ...

Let’s be honest — there are still cities in America where Black folks don’t feel comfortable to travel. We’ve seen too much, heard too much, and lived too many stories of threats, harassment, and ...

Recent economic research from the National Women’s Law Center and the Economic Policy Institute has unveiled disparities in financial opportunities for Black women across America’s metropolitan areas.

Strategists feel it's no surprise that Trump is stooping to new lows in his attacks on Black women and the cities they lead since they are breaking barriers that he can't touch. Since President Donald ...

OAKLAND, CA ‒ Mayor Barbara Lee and other officials in this California city are treating President Donald Trump's warning that he might send the National Guard there as more than just an offhand ...

Black civil rights leaders and the mayors of several cities on Tuesday denounced the deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital to combat crime, calling it “fundamentally grandstanding” ...

In dozens of cities, the recent rise of fentanyl has put older Black men in particular jeopardy. By Josh Katz Margot Sanger-Katz and Nick Thieme Young Black men in cities across America died of drug ...