WTVD

MRIs show stress from poverty, racism may alter brain development of Black children, study says

Black children living in poverty face increased instances of stress and trauma that can alter their brain development, a new study found. The study was published this week by the American Journal of ...
Black Enterprise

Prison Debt Passed Down To Black Women Pushes Them Further Into Poverty

New research highlights how passed-down prison debt disproportionately affects Black women. New research reveals how passed-down prison debt drives the loved ones of incarcerated people, particularly ...
EurekAlert!

New research suggests White Americans in areas with higher Black poverty are more likely to blame racial inequality on lack of effort

"Our findings highlight how the environment we live in shapes how we understand racial inequality," explains Dr. Sommet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. "We found that White Americans ...
The Root

Moynihan Revisited and the Ongoing Black-Poverty Debate

African Americans are still impoverished nearly 30 years after a controversial report inspired the phrase “blaming the victim,” Kenneth Braswell writes at Ebony. A few weeks ago, Fathers Incorporated, ...
The Heritage Foundation

The War on Black Fathers

In 2022, the District of Columbia launched Strong Families, Strong Futures, a $1.5 million pilot program to provide financial assistance to new and expecting low-income mothers. The program drew over ...
Yahoo

‘Racist tropes’ block Americans from seeing full poverty picture: Rev. William Barber III

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The racist myth around Black poverty is as old as America. Republican candidates have been exploiting it for decades, but Donald ...
Religion News Service

Rev. Barber's new book demystifies poverty: 'Black people are not the problem'

(RNS) — The civil rights champion believes he cannot be a moral leader and stand up only for Black people. Far more white people are poor and struggling, too. (RNS) — When Tim Tyson first invited the ...
WVEC

Author challenges Virginia Wesleyan students not to see poverty as 'a Black problem'

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new book looks to redefine how people see poverty. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, the co-author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American ...
Naija Gist - Latest

Changing the Narrative Around Black Poverty

Thurston said his ability to leave Washington for Boston, Los Angeles and New York City wasn’t because he was particularly exceptional or smarter. Instead, he was lucky. But the narrative around black ...
Washington Examiner

Rick Perry: Black poverty has increased under Obama

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry zinged President Obama on Thursday by saying he has presided over increased poverty among black families during his six and a half years in office. “I’m proud to live ...