Washington Informer
With Europe – led by Spain, Greece, and Ireland – teetering on the precipice of financial disaster, can the United States be far behind? "We can't wait," Republicans in this country seem to be snickering in their covens. And…
The latest edition of UNICEF's report on child poverty showed the United States ranks second out of 35 developed countries on the scale of what economists call "relative child poverty," with 23.1 percent of its children living in poverty.…
D.C. has finally gotten a handle on its teenage pregnancy rate with the numbers of teens getting pregnant at the lowest rate the city has seen in recent years. As a result, the D.C. Department of Health has also reported…
United Airlines Inadvertently United Black Businesses So here we were at a crossroads in the state of Indiana. I had just successfully detected, reported and busted a construction fronting scheme. Huber, Hunt and Nichols, the largest construction firm…
The interest rates on subsidized federal Stafford loans may double next month for more than seven million Americans, which include 1.5 million African-American students. Whenever someone questions the identity of President Obama, whether from the right — what…
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has declared his vision to create a "sustainable" D.C. In 20 years, he expects D.C. to be the "healthiest, greenest and most livable city in the United States." It's an ambitious plan and it will take…
The unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in April. In May, it rose, just a tiny bit, to 8.2 percent. A tenth of a percentage point does not seem like a big deal. Indeed, the Department of Labor descries the unemployment…
The times were tense as my office of Minority Business Development for the state of Indiana proceeded to weed out the corruption and deceit in the contracting arenas. The worst sector was construction and I knew the office needed more…
Is there a "drone" in your future? Indubitably! What's a drone? The first definition of a drone is a male honeybee that has no sting and gathers no honey. Then there's the definition of a parasite that lives on the…
In the wake of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., stories appeared in newspapers, on broadcast outlets and on the Internet about "the talk," a candid conversation Black parents have at some point with their Black…
It has been 11 months since Mitt Romney announced his candidacy for president. By winning the Texas Republican primary Romney has finally become the unofficial Republican Party presidential nominee. It will become official at the Republican convention in August. After…
Kwame Griffith is the drum major for an effort to recruit more African-American males into the teaching profession in classrooms across America. He is the senior vice president of regional operations for Teach For America (TFA), a national teacher…
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