Future
Workers at a Thai Son S.P. Co. garment factory endeavor to produce products for global clients, in Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, on June 21, 2025. Daniel Ceng | Anadolu | Getty Images Global attention turned to Vietnam on Thursday, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Hanoi just days before […]
Industry changemakers and Black stakeholders from African Diaspora establish global intellectual network as solution to Africa’s brain drain HOUSTON, (June 11, 2025) – Africa’s booming youth quake and projected 2.5 billion residents by 2050 have put the continent in the global spotlight. Africa is a force shaping the future worldwide, driven by a rising generation […]
Aaliyah Bilal, Brian Ingram Aaliyah Bilal, of Ft. Washington, Maryland, right, and Brian Ingram, of Los Angels, CA, react as they watch live TV coverage showing the victory of Democratic presidential candidate President Barack Obama for his re-election Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012 in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (Eugene Hoshiko/AP) As the United States sits […]
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has learned that the United States Government will deny future funding to the organization, cutting essential support for millions of people living in humanitarian crises and for midwives preventing mothers from dying in childbirth. The US is using the Kemp-Kasten Amendment to justify the funding cuts […]
Since “Black Mirror” debuted in 2011, the dystopian sci-fi anthology series has taken seeds of nascent technology and expanded them to absurd and disturbing proportions. In doing so, it has become a commentary on defining issues of the 21st-century: surveillance, consumerism, artificial intelligence, social media, data privacy, virtual reality and more. Every episode serves in […]
The exemption of smartphones, laptops and other electronic products from import tariffs on China will be short-lived, top US officials have said, with Donald Trump warning that no one was “getting off the hook.” “There was no Tariff ‘exception’, Trump said in a social media post on Sunday. “These products are subject to the existing […]
When the first two rounds of 10% tariffs hit, Zou Guoqing, a Chinese exporter, groaned but didn’t find the barriers insurmountable. He gave up some of his profits and offered his client, a snow-bike factory in Nebraska, price cuts ranging from 5% to 10%. It seemed to work: The factory agreed to a new order […]
When the first two rounds of 10% tariffs hit, Zou Guoqing, a Chinese exporter, groaned but didn’t find the barriers insurmountable. He gave up some of his profits and offered his client, a snow-bike factory in Nebraska, price cuts ranging from 5% to 10%. It seemed to work: The factory agreed to a new order […]
Donald Trump is preparing to consider a final proposal to decide the future of TikTok before a deadline for the app to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a US ban. The US vice-president, JD Vance, the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, […]
The United States Black Chamber Inc. (USBC), on Thursday, March 27th, hosted its annual “Power 50 Women of Influence” event honoring a diverse group of women from various industries. This honor, for Ingrid Best, the founder and CEO of IBest Wines, a South African-sourced product, was “surreal.” While Best is known as a spirit and […]