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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla’s black workers faced widespread racism, US agency alleges

    Lawsuit says employees at Fremont assembly plant endured ‘severe or pervasive’ harassment since 2015

    Tesla cars in a parking lot
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Cricket
    English cricket to gain own regulator in push to combat racism and sexism

    Package of measures, including higher fees for female international players, comes after damning report

    England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt batting during an international cricket match in Leicester this month
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    The Voice: a vote on indigenous rights divides Australia

    A once-in-a-generation referendum aims to atone for the past by empowering the country’s original inhabitants. Then came a backlash

    Natasha McCormack of the Central Land Council speaks to a Santa Teresa crowd about the vote
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    Met Police officer charged with murder over shooting of Chris Kaba

    Death of unarmed black Londoner last year sparked protests, contributing to falling confidence in UK’s largest force

    Chris Kaba
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    News in-depthUS society
    Illinois to become first US state to abolish cash bail

    Practice of demanding pretrial monetary bonds to be released from jail blamed for high incarceration rates

    Inmates walk in San Quentin state prison in San Quentin, California
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Citigroup Inc
    Citigroup seeks deal for small-bank platform after loan requests top $1bn

    Third-largest US lender’s Bridge network likened to a dating app for modest-sized loans

    A Citibank branch in Washington, DC
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Legal services
    US law firm removes diversity criteria for fellowship after challenge

    Move by Morrison Foerster comes as it was targeted in latest anti-affirmative action campaign by activist Edward Blum

    The logo of law firm Morrison Foerster
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    US society
    Law firms become latest battleground in US diversity fight

    Anti-affirmative action crusader expands his sights after winning landmark case over college admissions

    Conservative activist Edward Blum walks down the steps of the US Supreme Court
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    News in-depthUS race relations
    US students and colleges adapt to affirmative action ruling

    Applicants encouraged to focus on hardships they have overcome while colleges seek proxies for race in admissions

    People embrace at a demonstration on the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-conscious student admissions programs
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Moral Money
    Mobilising millions to build black wealth Premium content

    ‘Redlining’ legacy lives on in the US real estate market

    Protesters hold up fists at a gathering in support of the Black Lives Matter movement
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    There’s a silver lining for students in the US Supreme Court rulings

    Justices are unwittingly elevating the issue of income inequality and the need for class-based educational reform

    Illustration of a gavel being hit on a desk while a line of students climb up the gavel and on to the judge’s hand
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Exits of diversity executives shake faith in US companies’ commitments

    Hiring jumped after George Floyd’s murder but is falling in the face of economic and political pressures

    Vernā Myers
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    The search for a new language about race

    From white supremacism to census ethnicity questions, a clutch of new books enters the debate over racial identity

    A black-and-white photograph dated 1954 of a black Jamaican man in a smart white suit being checked by white customs officials in England. Behind him stands a woman in a smart suit
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    French riots show how entrenched inequalities have become

    The gulf between immigrants and those born in the country is larger than in almost any other developed nation

    Rear view of a French policeman in riot gear with graph lines showing disparity between immigrant and native-born employment
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    US society
    Harvard’s legacy admissions targeted after race-based criteria ruling

    Complaint against preferences for alumni and donor relatives cites Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

    People walk through the gate on Harvard Yard at the Harvard University
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    French politics
    Macron meets ministers to thrash out response to unrest

    Parisian authorities set to deploy 7,000 extra police officers in French capital

    Riot police in Nanterre on Saturday, whto siere Nahel’s family buried him in a private funeral at a hilltop cemetery
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Police killing of teenager reopens old wounds for France’s minorities

    Residents of the ‘banlieues’ say the 17-year-old’s death showed that little had changed since the serious disturbances of 2005

  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    US universities must find new ways to promote inclusion

    Supreme Court ruling should not deter efforts to create equality of opportunity

    Demonstrations in Washington last week, following the Supreme Court decision to strike down student admissions programmes based on race
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    French politics
    France endures fourth night of violence and looting after police shooting

    Interior minister says intensity of protests is fading but Macron cancels visit to Germany

  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Supreme Court US
    US Supreme Court curbs consideration of race in university admissions

    Decision set to have wide-reaching effects for affirmative action and other diversity programmes in America

    Demonstrators outside the US Supreme Court
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    Cricket
    Racism and sexism ‘widespread’ in English cricket, report finds

    Independent commission calls on sport to ‘urgently reform’ and add new regulator

    A ‘No racism in cricket’ sign at the Oval in London
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    Australian politics
    Australia launches constitutional referendum on indigenous recognition

    Landmark public vote would establish parliamentary advisory body representing Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders

    Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media after the Senate passed a law setting up a constitutional amendment on indigenous rights in Canberra on Monday
  • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
    News in-depthAustralian politics
    Racial abuse of veteran indigenous Australian journalist triggers uproar

    Targeting of Stan Grant highlights tensions ahead of referendum on recognition of First Nations peoples

    Crowd of people holding ‘I stand with Stan’ posters
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it

    The US brand of national conservatism fails to resonate in the UK because it is a fundamentally different society

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    News in-depthSpanish politics
    Spain faces reckoning after racist abuse of Real Madrid footballer

    ‘Clock is ticking’ for La Liga to fix reputation and reassure sponsors after Vinícius Júnior incident

    Vinícius Júnior walking on a football pitch
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