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As evident by the new August unemployment numbers, African Americans continue to suffer significantly higher rates of joblessness, and an event held Friday and Saturday at Holman United Methodist Church and in Leimert Park turned a spotlight on what is being called a crisis in Los Angeles.

If you take the long view—and by “long view” we’re talking 10 days—there have been three distinct paths the United States could have taken on Syria.

No charges will be filed against George Zimmerman after an alleged altercation with his estranged wife and her father, Lake Mary, Florida, Police Chief Steve Bracknell said Monday.

A state-run outreach campaign designed to educate Californians about the federal Obamacare program has failed to include Black media outlets in the mix, Black activists say.

A report by Bloomberg Rankings pegs the New Orleans area, including neighbors Metairie and Kenner, as No. 2 on a list of “Top 12 American Boomtowns.”

Here is a look at some national events honoring the memory of those lost in the 9/11 terror attacks.

Heralding the long fight toward racial equality that many say hasn’t ended, President Barack Obama commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech Wednesday on the same steps the civil rights leader spoke from half a century ago.

The United States Postal Service just released a limited edition Forever 1963 March on Washington stamp, and Congressman John Lewis, (D-Ga.) the final surviving speaker at the original march was part of the release ceremony held in Washington, D.C.

Keon Gilbert, assistant professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University, has received a $100,000, two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (RWJF), to determine which behaviors and policies are most likely to improve the health of African American men.

Prosecutors have charged James Francis Edwards, 15, and Chauncey Allen Luna, 16, with first degree murder and Michael Luna, 17, with the use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory to murder after the fact.