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Receive free US-China relations updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US-China relations news every morning. Janet Yellen says there is “ample room” for US and Chinese companies to boost trade and investment, despite security tensions, during a trip to Beijing aimed at easing friction between the two powers. […]
It is with great excitement that SHOPPE BLACK announces its partnership with Lendistry, the country’s largest African American-led deployer of capital. Our shared vision of empowering Black business owners and connecting them with vital resources is at the heart of this collaboration. Lendistry has proven to be a reliable lending partner, always putting the best […]
Watch CNN’s full interview with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” today at 4 p.m. ET. CNN — The top US general told CNN on Monday that while
Black women die due to pregnancy-related complications at a rate that is three times higher than their white peers, according to recent federal data, and experts say those tragic disparities result from structural racism. In a yearlong investigation, Capital B national health reporter Margo Snipe examined records in Georgia to better understand how disinvestment in […]
The Washington metro area has a lot of high-end grocery stores. They tend to locate in high-income neighborhoods – but not just any high-income neighborhoods. Although this region has the highest concentration of high-income majority-Black neighborhoods in the US, new Brookings research finds that premium grocers are still more likely to locate in neighborhoods with […]
In response to the Biden administration’s announcement of new regional migration measures upon the end of Title 42 on 11 May, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “Once again the United States is embracing a misguided carrot and stick approach to respond to the global refugee crisis: on the one hand, positively expanding […]
April 15 (Reuters) – Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said hedge funds and other parts of the shadow banking system need to face greater scrutiny after last month’s upheaval in U.S. government bonds, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Gensler told the newspaper that reducing the risks from […]
The Black population of Greater Boston has grown, it’s more diverse than it’s ever been and the city of Boston is no longer its demographic epicenter. Those are three key findings in a new report out Thursday from Boston Indicators, the research arm of The Boston Foundation. Researchers like Luc Schuster, who co-authored the report, […]
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday that the United States will increase investment in Africa and help spur economic growth as she began a week long tour of the continent aimed at offering a counter to the influence of rival China. China has invested heavily in Africa in recent decades, including in infrastructure […]
For Boston area film lovers, March comes in like a lion and the lion sticks around for an enormous cinematic feast that lasts throughout spring. In fact, there’s so much going during the last weekend in March, I’ve decided that next year I need to attend Boston Sci-Fi fest’s time travelers’ ball so I can […]