By Ethnic Media Services Poor health and exposure to environmental toxins shorten the careers of Black workers, according to three new studies. Black workers are often forced into early retirement, dampening their prospects for a stable economic life post-career, reports the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Numerous studies resulting from this research agenda ...

By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) won a $10,000 fair housing settlement last November against a property management company, CIM Group LP, a global real estate company headquartered in Los Angeles, and property owner, RACR Sora, LLC, for implementing a blanket ban on renting to tenants with criminal histories ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent Five years ago, Arlette Ebanks experienced severe kidney pain that she believed suggested a criminal need for a transplant. Her doctors disagreed, but the 52-year-old Northeast, D.C., resident, and mother of two who worked for the Department of Transportation for more than half of her life ...