Endless economic indicators point to deep (and deepening) black and white inequality in the U.S. — an illustration of a deeply unfair system. In many cases, the divide is still as bad or worse ...

Klan Economics in Black and White (But Mostly White) by Richard Zacks. It sounds like a cruel joke, but it isn't—The Ku Klux Klan made huge profits selling white sheets.

The typical Black American family is virtually no closer to equal footing with its White peers in terms of income and wealth than it was 50 years ago, when Civil Rights-era reforms were enacted to ...

No matter what their parents’ income level, black men do worse than white men on average. Black men born into families at the 75th percentile of the income distribution wind up, on average, 12 ...

Black Americans are vastly underrepresented among economics students and professors, a wide range of data have shown. There are no black editors of the most prestigious economics journals.

The economic toll on black people during the long decades of oppression was staggering. Many immigrants -- Irish, Italians, Chinese and others -- came to this country and suffered discrimination, too.

In many ways, America remains two societies – one black and one white – as measured by key demographic indicators of social and economic well-being. 5 At the same time, it’s important to note that on ...

Roland G. Fryer Jr. is the first black economist to win the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, awarded annually by the American Economic Association to the economist under the age of 40 who has ...

For the Black community, economic stability is not just a goal but a cornerstone of our daily lives, deeply intertwined with our values of faith and family. As we navigate various societal ...

On average, black households had $8,762 in cash or equivalent liquid assets compared with $49,529 for white households, according to government data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute ...

Lisa Cook of Michigan State University, one of the economics profession's few prominent black women, leads the American Economic Association's Summer Training Program, a decades-old effort to ...