New York’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice says her job is to grow the economy by delivering on Mayor Zohran ...

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Join Next City for a conversation with experts and authors, Oscar Perry Abello and Andre Perry. Both Abello and Perry wrote books, published in 2025, that explore the ways that our economic systems ...

We are living in reactionary times. For many funders and organizers, what once felt like steady, if hard, progress on economic and social justice goals now feels more like a stall halfway uphill and a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be ...

“The March on Washington was more than inspiration; it was an act of defiance, a refusal to accept exclusion as fate. Yet here we are, generations later, asking why that promise is still just out of ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani continues to shape his team, including who will carry out his affordability agenda when he takes office in January. At a sanitation garage on Staten Island, Mamdani ...

Coalition advocates for a fair, just and inclusive federal budget that reflects the needs of all Americans (Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Urban League today launched the Fair Budget ...

New Yorkers are tough — but the Trump administration is stretching our resilience. From slashing federal oversight to gutting consumer protections, Washington has left working families vulnerable to ...

In developing economies like Bangladesh, there is another dimension of labour welfare that receives far less attention: the economic consequences of immobilised capital ...

National Guard troops line the streets as Black sanitation workers demonstrate in Memphis on March 29, 1968, days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In his last speech on April 3, 1968, ...