Is Cory Booker more myth than mayor?
theGRIO REPORT - Political analysts and writers agree that Booker hasn't soothed residents' paranoia about what's going to happen to their city...
Soul food disappearing in Chicago as blacks leave
CHICAGO (AP) - But in the past 10 years as the city lost more than 17 percent of its black population, one soul food place after another has closed and the surviving few like Josephine's are struggling...
Have artists been good stewards of MLK boulevards?
OPINION - It is in predominantly black neighborhoods where King streets where we often find empty storefronts, no sit-down restaurants, and violence gripping the pavement...
Detroit cops, citizens team up to change city's image
OPINION - For there to be any chance for us, or any urban area with a violent history, to shake this, there needs to be cooperation between the authorities and the citizens...
Unemployment rose in nearly all US cities this June
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates rose in 345 large metro areas...
Is America in danger of becoming Detroit?
OPINION - Detroit is in dire straits these days, and the Motor City could give us a hint as to where America is headed...
Is living in a diverse community safer?
OPINION - Crime rates are falling -- and that's good news. That there may be a correlation between increasing racial diversity in communities and decreasing crime is even more exciting...
Census: Fewer black children in biggest US cities
NEW YORK (AP) - The inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have been steadily draining of black children...
Unemployment rises in more than half of US metros
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department says the unemployment rate increased in 210 metro areas in May, a sharp reversal from April, rates dropped in more than 90 percent of metro areas...
Census: Hispanics surpass blacks in most US metros
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting dynamics in cities once dominated by whites and blacks...
