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.

Although black Americans are still underrepresented in high-tech work, they have gained about 130,000 jobs in computer-related occupations in the past three years.

A group of black and Latino former drivers sued the online retailer, alleging that Amazon discriminated against them when it fired them based on an overly strict background check policy.

The study also found that while Black people constituted 20.5% of community and social service occupations, they were only in 8.9% of management occupations, 5.9% of architecture occupations, 6% ...

Black and Hispanic workers are underrepresented in STEM jobs relative to their shares in the U.S. workforce as a whole. Black workers make up 9% of the STEM workforce, smaller than their share of all ...

The lack of growth occupation access for Black workers in metro Detroit led to a 15 percent unemployment rate in 2021 during the pandemic, more than 2.6 times the rate for white workers.

It estimates that the deaths of black Africans are 3.7 times higher than might be expected by geography and age, 2.9 times higher for Pakistanis and 1.8 for black Caribbean people (who are older ...

Olympic "GOAT" Simone Biles took a break from making history at the 2024 Paris Olympics to take a jab at former President Donald Trump, who during a debate in June referred to occupations held by ...

Black and American Indian or Pacific Islander workers are more likely to be employed in the least exposed jobs by a margin of about 10 percentage points each. Asian workers, who are more likely than ...

A new study finds that performing many low paid but essential jobs puts people at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. It also finds that Black people in the United States are more likely to have ...