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One of the U.S. Capitol police officers who defended the federal building and Congress members inside it during the Jan. 6 insurrection is running for office. Harry Dunn announced his candidacy nearly three years to the day when he had to face violent rioters who stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., in a deadly […]

TOPEKA — Academy Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Kevin Willmott welcomed the U.S. Army’s decision to set aside courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers, including 19 executed for involvement in World War I-era race rioting in Houston. Willmott, a professor of film at University of Kansas, released “The 24th” in 2020 to shed light on injustices […]

Receive free Tesla Inc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Tesla Inc news every morning. Elon Musk’s electric-car maker Tesla on Thursday was sued by a US civil rights agency, which accused the company of tolerating “open hostility and racism” directed at black employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity […]

Published Sept. 15, 2023 5:56 a.m. ET People walk the closed off streets at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Ongoing strikes by Hollywood actors and writers have kept discussions about fair compensation and job protection at the forefront of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, […]

Black and Hispanic households faced higher inflation than the national average in 2021 and 2022, according to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but the gaps have now reversed. When costs of living started to spike in the United States two years ago, differences emerged among demographic groups. That was mainly […]

Black and Hispanic households faced higher inflation than the national average in 2021 and 2022, according to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but the gaps have now reversed. When costs of living started to spike in the US two years ago, differences emerged among demographic groups. That was mainly because […]

A new study published in JAMA has shown the horrific health inequalities black Americans in the US faced compared to the White population from 1999 to 2020. Black Americans experienced 1.6 million excess deaths compared to White population Black Americans faced a staggering 1.6million excess deaths over the last two decades compared to White people, […]

More than 250 million people faced severe hunger last year, with people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to a United Nations-led report published on Wednesday. The fallout of the war in Ukraine, including high food prices, was the major driver of hunger, particularly in the world’s poorest countries, which have still […]

“I was begging. The official literally looked me in my eye and said: ‘Only Ukrainians. That’s all. If you are Black, you should walk.’”  The call for justice following discrimination against Black and African people at the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine was defined by this singular quote. A quote that reverberated across the […]

“I was begging. The official literally looked me in my eye and said: ‘Only Ukrainians. That’s all. If you are Black, you should walk.’”  The call for justice following discrimination against Black and African people at the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine was defined by this singular quote. A quote that reverberated across the […]


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