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  • 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
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    News in-depth
    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, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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

    Demonstrators stage a protest in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday following the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by five police officers
  • 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

    A Jewish man stands against a wall
  • 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

    state and county officials gather at Bruce’s Beach to present the property deed to the Bruce family
  • 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

    Kyrie Irving dribbles the ball during a game
  • 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

    A still from a black-and-white film dated 1898 shows a black man and woman sharing a kiss as they dance
  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    ObituaryBill Russell
    Bill Russell, basketball star and activist, 1934-2022

    The player spoke out on the great social issues of the day when many of his peers chose to stay silent

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    News in-depthCryptocurrencies
    Crypto collapse reverberates widely among black American investors

    Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn

    Spike Lee on stage at a conference in June
  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Race at work: how hard are companies really trying?

    Dismantling systemic racism is a huge task, but many employees think organisations are failing to take it seriously

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    George Floyd
    Two years since George Floyd’s murder, healing remains elusive for Minneapolis

    Talk of systemic racism still dominates local politics, yet efforts to address it have been frustrated

    A makeshift memorial to George Floyd near the site where he died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    Buffalo shooting shines light on racist ‘great replacement’ theory

    Idea that minorities are conspiring with Democrats to displace white Americans gains traction on far right

    Mourners take part in a vigil in Buffalo, New York, to honour the 10 people killed in the shooting
  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Biden condemns ‘poison’ of white supremacy behind Buffalo shooting

    President calls on Americans to reject racist ‘replacement theory’ during visit to city

    President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of the shooting in Buffalo, New York
  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    News in-depth
    ‘It’s like the devil came to town’: Buffalo grieves after America’s latest racist attack

    Tragedy fits longstanding pattern of rightwing extremism, say experts

    Mourners comfort the family of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, one of those killed in the Buffalo shooting
  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Fund management
    The trillions of dollars bypassing black-run funds 

    Lack of allocations poses ‘huge problem’ of inequality for the industry, warns investor John Rogers

    Portrait of John Rogers
  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    InterviewTheatre
    Claudia Rankine: ‘We are inside a culture that’s dedicated to whiteness’

    The award-winning writer’s 2019 play ‘The White Card’ — new to the UK — deals with art, race and America

    A woman wearing a gold and green silk scarf looks wearily at the camera
  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    Asian Americans take safety into their own hands after violent attacks 

    A spate of attacks has prompted people to take self-defence classes and acquire pepper spray

    People attending a rally in Times Square, New York, to raise awareness of hate crimes against Asian Americans
  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    You Don’t Know Us Negroes — Zora Neale Hurston, the great American provocateur

    A comprehensive collection of her essays spans three decades of iconoclastic, fearless writing

    Zora Neale Hurston is smiling, wearing a coat with a fur collar and a hat with a feather
  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    The Big Read
    American football: the racism lawsuit overshadowing the Super Bowl

    On the eve of the NFL’s biggest game, a black coach claims discriminatory hiring practices are widespread in the league

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