By Gregory Simpkins Throughout 2025, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was considered dead. Legislation extending the trade process failed to get passed in late...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will enter the next Congress with a record 62 members, contributing to an unprecedented 67 Black lawmakers in total. This milestone...
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has announced her candidacy to become the 29th chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), succeeding Rep. Steven Horsford if elected. Clarke, currently...
AP | Black voters expressed a mix of hope and worry Monday over Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race and the prospect of Vice President...
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Steven Horsford said his commitment to marginalized communities, Black America, and his Democratic colleagues has always been unwavering. The 2023 National Newspaper...
AP | Stacey Abrams will join the faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C., the next step in her reemergence after the Democrat lost her second...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) earlier this month, announced a changing of the guard for the 118th Congress as Nevada Democrat Steven Horsford takes the helm...
“Africa should be allowed the space to choose its own partners and should never again find itself as a battleground for influence among the global powers.”...
California Rep. Karen Bass has been formidable in the polls since announcing her run for mayor of Los Angeles, and now, she seems to be pulling...
She also could provide historical milestones as the city’s first female and second Black mayor.
Receiving the Phoenix award is a signal that the work we’re doing on voting rights has made a difference
U.S. companies should be committed to diversity and inclusion in hiring, and tech companies, which have some of the lowest diversity rankings among large employers, are...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has launched a new a initiative aimed at increasing African American representation and inclusion in the tech industry. Through initiative named...
Unemployment rates fell for every major group of Americans last year, the unemployment rate in the United States also dropped to 6.7 percent, the lowest since...
African American voters The U.S. Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort...
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. PHOTO/File The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have given their official endorsement to encourage President Obama to nominate Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as...
African American lawmakers on Tuesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do something about changes to a college loan program that they say make it tougher...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a previous engagement hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with black...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Washington DC – On Wednesday morning, April 24 at 9am, the African American Leadership Council will host a press conference at the National Press...
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have presented an alternative budget for the 2013 fiscal year that they said slashes deficits, eliminates the sequester and protects...
Rep. Marcia Fudge., new Chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio has been elected to lead the Congressional Black Caucus. Ms. Fudge,...
The Congressional Black Caucus held a series of events throughout the country on Tuesday to educate communities on voter suppression laws and to help ensure eligible...
The Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons by African-American ministers to fire up their flocks to...
In a shift in White House tactics on the cusp of an election year, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away these days from saying that many...
After a long, somewhat contentious summer, in which the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) seemed to fall out of love with President Barack Obama over the black...
As the debate over jobs turns into the latest political tug-of-war, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri walks a careful but candid line. As chairman of the...
ATLANTA (AP) - President Barack Obama's jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with him over what they perceived as...
The Labor Department has released the August jobs report and the unemployment figured was unchanged from July’s 9.1 percent. In addition, the economy added only 17,000...
MIAMI (AP) - The mounting frustration over jobs is beginning to have political repercussions in the black community...
OPINION - If President Obama cannot afford open displays of anger, let Maxine Waters do the job. If the Tea Party can fight, so can we...
theGRIO REPORT - On Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus takes its "For the People" Jobs Initiative to Atlanta, Georgia hosting a job fair and town hall.
OPINION - The CBC is in the unique position to provide this kind of direction, and I believe they have the vision and capacity to make...
Black lawmakers are embarking on a month-long campaign Monday to address the staggering unemployment rate among African Americans, an issue that has become a growing source...
OPINION - While Rep. West went a tad over-the-top in his response, there is a larger issue here about racial and gender stereotypes of black men...
The Congressional Black Caucus publicly accused the Obama administration of failing to adequately address a veritable epidemic of African American unemployment...
