A networking and hiring event for professionals of color in Minneapolis. Michael Siluk Getty Images The unemployment rate for black Americans fell in April, bucking the general trend, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Black Americans remain the ethnic group with the highest unemployment rate in the U.S., even after the group’s…
First came containers full of equipment for a remote, renovated property on the edge of the forest. It had housed a riding academy and a café, but was converted for a mysterious business. Then muscular young men appeared, jogging through the trees at odd hours and talking to each other in English. Juozas Banevicius, who…
We’re hiring, part-time heroes wanted, sign at entrance to Target store, Queens, New York. Lindsey Nicholson | Universal Images Group | Getty Images The unemployment rate among Black Americans jumped in March, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Unemployment among Blacks rose to 6.4% last month, compared to 5.6% in February. That’s…
A sign outside a restaurant looking for workers on May 5, 2023 in Miami. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Black women’s unemployment fell in February as the number of people looking for work increased, data released by the U.S. government showed Friday. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on…
Ali and Jamila Wright, co-owners of Brooklyn Tea. Courtesy: Brooklyn Tea A look at the state of Black employment in America reveals a mixed picture: Great progress has been made in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, but much remains to be done. In the nearly four years that have passed since the…
FILE: Leon Black, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, USA, on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Patrick T Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images A woman who had accused Apollo Global Management Co-founder Leon Black, who raped her in the New York…
Former President Donald J. Trump said in a speech to a black conservative group Friday night that he believes the four criminal cases he is facing have won him the support of black voters because they highlight the historic injustice of the justice system in his mirrored saw legal problems. “I think that’s why black…
Two of Georgia’s largest Black church groups are officially joining forces for the first time to mobilize Black voters in the battleground state ahead of November’s presidential election. The two congregations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, plan to pool their resources and their more than 140,000 parishioners in the…
