This morning President Trump tweeted a victorious message about the unemployment rate for black Americans dipping to its lowest level, and steady declines in joblessness for Hispanics. I wrote about why Trump and the GOP can't claim credit for this progress, and why no one should be applauding a 6.8 percent unemployment rate in the first place.

My latest on the quiet, but significant changes being made to align the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Trump's deregulation agenda:

Finally got around to writing up some thoughts on America's reckoning with sexual harassment, and how this current moment, like so many before it, is leaving out women of color.

You may have heard that Ken Chenault will soon step down as CEO of American Express. But what many may not realize is that when he does, that will reduce the number of black CEOs at Fortune 500 companies to three—continuing a downward trend in racial diversity at the chief executive level.

I take a look at how that could happen despite increasing education levels among people of color and a much bigger, ongoing conversation about diversity within corporations:

https://t.co/Mq1AlrEkVs

Late Tuesday night, Republicans scored their biggest victory yet over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by killing a rule that would've given Americans the right to take banks (and other financial institutions) to court for alleged wrongdoing.

The CFPB's new rules on payday loans solves the supply problem when it comes to these often-dangerous loans. But if something better and safer doesn't arise to satisfy demand for fast, small loans that are accessible to a broad swath of Americans, the problem won't really be solved

I joined Chris Hayes to talk about the devastation to Puerto Rico, and what it means given the territory's already fragile economic state. http://www.msnbc.com/…/ravaged-puerto-rico-begins-brutal-re…

Mehrsa Baradaran's new book is about black banks and the racial wealth gap. I wrote about my favorite chapter, on black capitalism and the idea of economic self-sufficiency here: https://www.theatlantic.com/…/black-capitalism-bara…/540522/

One issue that has come up over and over again during this mentorship series that I have been managing is the fact that people tend to pull up people who are just like them. It happens in every industry, and every group. And it can make it really difficult to change existing power structures.

Today we have a pretty special piece on David Carr, a man who was really special to a lot of people. The cool thing isn't just that there are lots of impressive people who count themselves among his mentees. It's also that the people he chose to encourage and champion are such a diverse lot. He saw talent in so many different people and so many different places, and put some serious effort into nurture it.

This massive breach affects 143 million Americans, you are more than likely one of them

I wrote about Charlottesville and its aftermath, and how social media is being used as a tool to pressure employers to take both political and moral positions that they otherwise might not.