After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic ... and defined a minimum wage also supported black workers. Roosevelt’s relief programs made him ...

Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y., “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932–1962,” provides new evidence that the New Deal was often a raw deal for ...

As the Federal Emergency Relief Act, a prototype of the New Deal work-relief programs ... Richardson, an African-American who died the next year at just 23, lived in New York City, and his ...

The Northern Black press, meanwhile, was more blunt. The New Deal, more than one newspaper proclaimed, was also a “Raw Deal.” Eight decades later, that charge still hangs in the air.

New Deal legislation struck down as unconstitutional, like the National Industrial Recovery Act, came back piecemeal and passed constitutional muster with the votes of Black and eventually seven ...

The House's leading progressive political arm is throwing its weight behind a candidate who signed onto a "Black New Deal" that contained radical demands such as reparations, eliminating school ...

Chicago Sunrise Movement rallies for a Green New Deal, in Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 27, 2019. (Wikimedia Commons) Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media ...

After years of planning and negotiations, the Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition ... required upon exercising the option. The new agreement, revised from one approved on Aug. 19 ...