And once again, the unemployment rate of black youth was an astronomical 41.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011 compared to a still very high 22.3 percent for white youth.

For the first time in almost 50 years, Black workers' labor force participation rate has exceeded that of white workers. Here's what it could mean.

Unemployment among Black Americans last month reached its highest level in more than three years, in stark contrast to the broader labor market’s stunning resilience.

The ratio of Black-to-white unemployment went from 1.27 in April 2020 to 1.97 in August 2020—that is, the Black unemployment rate is currently double the white unemployment rate.

So long as the Southern white laborers could be induced to prefer poverty to equality with the Negro, just so long was a labor movement in the South made impossible.

Tuesday, August 7, is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. For some, that might be confusing since there’s an Equal Pay Day for “all” women that is celebrated in April.

GLENDALE — In honor of the labor movement he started and of the living legacy he left behind, about 200 people of all ages gathered at Pacific Edison Auditorium on Thursday to commemorate ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) May we take a moment to mourn the transition of the Honorable Alexis Margaret Herman (1946-2025), the first African American woman who served our nation as Secretary of Labor.