Colorlines talks to authors Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder about how invisible forces, such as social networks and personal experiences, contribute to residential segregation.

The White House fumes over DACA ruling, while Congress debates a deal for Dreamers and comprehensive reform.

Top Democrats say they won’t vote for a year-end funding bill to keep the federal government running unless it includes provisions to protect young immigrants from deportation.

Also: What’s next for the tax reform bill?

So racism is a thing in Corn Pops land, too?

When Chanel Turner founded Fou-Dré in 2009, she became the first Black woman to run a vodka company. Now she’s creating community with her Black Owned Wine and Spirits Festival, which enters its second year this weekend. 

A new report from Nielsen puts numbers to Black women’s consumer, entrepreneurial and advocacy power in the 21st century.

Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan Association was founded during the Great Depression.

The Hood Incubator blends organizing tactics with legal and educational support and business connections to develop pathways for Black and Brown people who are typically frozen out of the growing legal weed economy.

How will it impact you?

BackersOfHate.org documents Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Uber and more companies’ ties to the Trump Administration and policies that negatively impact poor people of color.

Please take our first reader survey in many years. There’s good music in it for you.

Good Jobs Nation wants you to know why it thinks Representative Joe Wilson’s “Right to Work” undermines unions and the workers who depend on them.

“This new administration is attacking the hard-won protections of our climate, health, and communities…”

“The population in Puerto Rico cannot be held hostage to past irresponsible borrowing and lending.”

A flurry of Senate confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet nominees are happening this week. Here’s when and where to watch.

State-level marijuana legality reforms often don’t help African Americans who are frozen out of dispensary ownership. The rapper partners with scholar Erik Nielson for a new Rolling Stone essay that breaks down how to fix the disparity.

“I was arrested this week because it’s wrong for the richest nation in the history of the world to pay half its African-American workers and 60 percent of its Latino workers less than $15 an hour.”

Will you flex your economic muscle for the greater good?