WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced changes Monday to target more federal pandemic assistance to the nation’s smallest businesses and ventures owned by women and people of color.

In his recent executive order on advancing racial equity, President Joe Biden reminded us that the American Dream is built on the promise of equal opportunity. Yet, our nation has consistently failed to live up to this ideal. As the order states, “Entrenched disparities in our laws and publi…

WASHINGTON — J. Monroe Gamble IV was the first Black research assistant to work at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He started in 2018.

Kamala Harris isn't the only Black woman making history in 2021.

Think the best time to start a business is in a booming economy? Maybe. But some of the biggest business success stories in recent decades actually came from a good idea hatched during a recession.

Add one more potential item to the list of economic hardships dealt to Americans in the past 11 months: rising gas prices.

CLEVELAND — The Black owner of 14 McDonald's franchises says the company has shown more favorable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communities, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Youngstown.

Civil rights activists and business leaders have asked President Joe Biden's administration to include targeted funding for Black-owned businesses in the next COVID-19 relief package. They also say that without the federal aid many businesses could be forced to close their doors in the next …

Comcast Corporation is awarding $5 million in grants to businesses owned by people of color in Philadelphia, Chester, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit and Houston to assist them in the pandemic recovery.

The one-time home to Kenny Gamble/Leon Huff/Thom Bell’s Philadelphia International Records at 309 S. Broad St. has been transitioning into the Arthaus condos complex along the Avenue of the Arts. It held its topping-off ceremony Friday to celebrate the construction crews who weathered the CO…

Bitcoin's big week got bigger with an announcement from rapper Jay Z and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that the pair are establishing a bitcoin development fund.

Roderick J. Gilbert

TOLEDO, Ohio — When General Motors boldly announced its goal last month to make only battery-powered vehicles by 2035, it didn’t just break from more than a century of internal combustion engines. It also clouded the future for 50,000 GM workers whose jobs could become obsolete far sooner th…

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Quaker Oats is releasing a new name and logo for its "Aunt Jemima" products, finally retiring the racist stereotype that has adorned its pancake mixes and syrups for decades.