and a Black presence in elite institutions was exceedingly rare. By the time Harris first won elected office in 2004, in contrast, she had settled in San Francisco, a city with a small and ...

Kay Coles James is correct when she opines the black Hollywood elite should focus their power and concerns more on the educational failures of the black community and less on the Academy Awards ...

With a summer of Black uprisings and a presidential election around the corner, Black celebrities with wealth and power have announced various plans for Black Americans. There’s Diddy’s ...

Many of the Black elite during the time owned retail and grocery stores and pharmacies. In a letter published in the April 22, 1852 issue of the Frederick Douglass Papers, someone known only by ...

She writes that she and other members of the black elite thought of themselves as a "Third Race, poised between the masses of Negroes and all classes of Caucasians." Ultimately, it was the Black ...

A decline in the already small number of Black and Hispanic students at elite law schools is troubling news for diverse students who want jobs at top law firms and as judicial clerks, they said.

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor talked about her book The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era, in which she recalls the rise and fall of America’s black elite ...

In “The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era,” author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor chronicles the colored aristocracy’s brief taste of nearly equal citizenship in ...

Dunbar told the The Los Angeles Times that she aimed “to create a Black elite that respected and centered things like education, thrift, religious piety — things that would perhaps add to the ...