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  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    FT Wealth
    ‘All we’re asking is for a level playing field’: black entrepreneurs in the UK

    Despite steps to support small black-owned businesses, there still remains a lack of support or funding for those trying to break through the glass ceiling

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    Education
    California anti-bias law criticised for hurting minority students

    State travel ban impedes university transfers for black students from low-income backgrounds

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    Workplace diversity & equality
    UK private companies given targets for ethnic minorities on boards

    Parker review records progress on diversity in the FTSE 100 as it expands scope of its recommendations

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Special ReportThe Modern Workplace: People
    Cuts to investment in diversity threaten gains

    Reducing funding and staff could undermine progress since George Floyd’s murder

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    US Democrats battle to rally black voters in 2024

    African-Americans in crucial ‘purple’ states are increasingly frustrated by issues such as policing and voting reform

  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    The problem with the argument for reparations

    It almost invariably becomes about who should pay, rather than about who needs the money

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    News in-depthUS employment
    Black Americans ‘trade up’ to higher-paying jobs amid labour market squeeze

    Job seekers from minority groups are taking advantage of a pandemic-related boom in areas such as transportation

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    InterviewBrazilian politics
    How Lula’s government plans to boost racial equality in Brazil

    Minister Anielle Franco, sister of murdered Rio politician, aims to tackle prejudices that harm country’s non-white population

  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    US police
    Memphis police disband unit connected to death of Tyre Nichols

    Move follows release of video that renewed criticism of US policing tactics

  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    US police
    Video shows deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police

    US braced for protests after release of footage of events leading to death of 29-year-old black man

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    Questions of privilege

    Is the term ‘white privilege’ doing more harm than good? Three insightful books look at anti-Semitism, migration and class amid the battle to end racism

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers
    Lawyers use pro bono hours to step up fight for racial justice

    The Black Lives Matter movement was an awakening for law firms on the magnitude of the challenge

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Nike Inc
    Nike terminates Kyrie Irving contract after anti-Semitism controversy

    NBA star loses crucial partnership amid fallout from social media post

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Incendiary claims about the UK census do not reflect reality

    We should interrogate the convenient weaponisation of the latest data

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Tackle the ‘credit invisibles’ to help close the racial wealth gap

    Alternative methods aim to open up lending to people who lack conventional records

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    Special Report
    Diversity Leaders

    British comedian Francesca Martinez stands up for difference; Irish tech’s equality mindset; Volvo steers inclusive course; UK media’s ‘50:50’ target; leaders today need their vulnerable side; 850 companies operating in Europe ranked for diversity

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    US schools still have a racial segregation problem

    While the debate about ‘affirmative action’ in university admissions rages, a bigger issue persists

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Stephen Bush
    What is an ethnic minority anyway?

    An individual’s self-declared status is ultimately secondary to how states choose to identify them

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    UK society
    ‘We have come a long way’: ‘Twice migrant’ Asians celebrate Sunak’s arrival as UK prime minister

    First non-white occupant of Downing Street marks a major milestone for community that migrated from east African nations

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    Black History Month 2022 — celebrating creativity across the arts
    Podcast review — Black and Gay, Back in the Day is a portal into the past

    The series explores personal stories through a single photograph

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    UK police
    Police watchdog to probe role of race in shooting of Chris Kaba

    Death of unarmed 24-year-old has reignited concerns of racism in London’s Met Police

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    National Basketball Association Inc
    PayPal threatens to pull Phoenix Suns sponsorship after owner’s racist slurs

    Payments company says it will not renew deal with basketball team if its owner Robert Sarver remains in charge

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    London’s Met Police suspends officer over shooting of unarmed black man

    Force takes action after public outcry to the death of Chris Kaba, as family criticise lack of urgency

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    HTSI
    ‘The only thing as American as apple pie is the oppression of black people’

    Described as The Joy of Cooking meets the Bible, the Ghetto Gastro’s Black Power Kitchen is like nothing you’ve ever read before

  • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
    ReviewFilm
    Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 — American film history through a new lens

    Los Angeles exhibition sheds overdue light on African-American achievement, but also reminds us of a racist legacy

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