Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza. The demand has its roots in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a decades-old campaign against Israel’s policies toward […]
For many years, researchers have studied the “digital divide” by examining the gap between those who have access to digital technology and those who don’t. But as these gaps have narrowed over time, another set of contrasts has emerged when it comes to the ways different demographic groups use technology. Although whites, blacks and Hispanics […]
Kenny Welcome isn’t yet a decade out of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and he’s launched his own venture capital firm, KJW Capital, with the aim of connecting primarily Black people of wealth with investment opportunities, particularly in new businesses founded by Black entrepreneurs. Welcome, 31, has set himself an ambitious target of […]
Months before Blue Door (through May 19) opened at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company, playwright Tanya Barfield’s 2006 story of a Black mathematics professor disconnected from three generations of his ancestors had already rattled and rewarded its two-person cast and director Darryl V. Jones. During their early rehearsals of the play, the three men shared personal […]
Despite outcry over abuses in Gaza war, US president stresses that his commitment to Israel’s security is ‘ironclad’. Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden has signed into law a $94bn foreign funding bill that includes military aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, ending a months-long legislative impasse in Washington over the assistance. Biden hailed […]
Black Americans play a profound role in shaping the world’s technology. Many everyday essentials, from caller ID to traffic lights, came from the creative minds of Black technology inventors, innovators and leaders. At VMware, we pride ourselves on innovation. So, in honor of Black History Month, we decided to highlight some of the all-time greatest […]
Tolton “came to Rome because Rome … was willing to take him on as a seminarian when no other seminary in the United States would accept that.” Venerable Augustus Tolton, a former slave turned Catholic priest, is now on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church. He studied in Rome near the Spanish Steps […]
By Holly Honderich BBC News, Washington DC 24 April 2024 Updated 27 minutes ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The Supreme Court will weigh in on abortion access once again, nearly two years after overturning Roe v Wade The US Supreme Court has heard arguments about how close to death a woman must be […]
US payrolls rose in March by the most in nearly a year and the unemployment rate dropped, pointing to a strong labor market that’s powering the economy. But the Black jobless rate climbed sharply in March, with Black women seeing the biggest losses. “We’re keeping a very, very close eye on that and we’ll continue […]
Dairy cows must be tested for bird flu before moving across state lines under a federal order to be issued Wednesday, as evidence mounts the virus is . . .