This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...

Fashion is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding ourselves and the world around us. Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black ...

Black history has never moved in silence; it’s marched, chanted, and sung through generations of resistance, pride, and unapologetic joy. Black power music serves as cultural documentation and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of leadership, culture & equity in business. When Lanny Smith, founder of Actively Black, closed out his ...

Black Americans are among the most religious groups in the United States. But religion differs substantially among Black Americans. Similar to patterns seen among the U.S. population overall, older ...

Angel Gregorio, owner of The Spice Suite, conceived the open-air marketplace after buying the property that became Black and Forth. As reports circulate about Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser’s ...

Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams. By Jeffery C. Mays ...