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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 […]
A new report by UN International experts advancing racial justice and equality in policing, published after an official visit to the country, shows that Black people in the US are three times more likely to be killed by police than if they were White, and 4.5 times more likely to be incarcerated. Dr Tracie Keesee, an expert […]
Yale University must face a claim that it intentionally inflicted emotional distress when a supervisor expressed negative racial stereotypes to a Black contractor during their meeting. Contractor Todd Howell and his business, New England Snow & Ice Management LLC, entered into a contract with Yale to provide snow and ice removal services in 2019. After […]
Footage showed the official appearing to snub the girl, the only Black gymnast in a medal lineup. Ireland’s gymnastics federation has apologised for the allegedly racist treatment of a young Black gymnast who was skipped by an official handing out medals to a row of girls last year. Footage posted on social media last week […]
Team USA gymnast was among many who condemned the actions of the official Gymnastics Ireland is embroiled in a racism row after a shocking video showed a young black competitor being skipped over during a medal ceremony as her white peers were each given an award. Olympic champion Simone Biles
Being a mom is hard. Being a Black mom is especially hard. A new study from North Carolina State University underscores the ways that being a Black mother in the United States involves navigating aspects of parenthood that are explicitly tied to dealing with anti-Black racism. “All mothers experience stress; but Black mothers in the […]
Being a mom is hard. Being a Black mom is especially hard. A new study from North Carolina State University underscores the ways that being a Black mother in the United States involves navigating aspects of parenthood that are explicitly tied to dealing with anti-Black racism. “All mothers experience stress; but Black mothers in the […]
Promising to end the practice of piling on more environmental burdens to the same South and West Side communities, Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing a series of reforms aimed at changing city practices after federal investigators last year determined Chicago violates the civil rights of its residents by concentrating polluting businesses in Black and Brown […]
Part of the Series The Road to Abolition There is an old saying that “when white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” That saying speaks to a fundamental truth about the U.S.: Black people are positioned to catch hell because of historical and contemporary systemic forms of inequality. After the overturning of Roe […]
Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and Brian H. Williams, MD, surgeon and former congressional health policy advisor, discuss Williams’ new book, The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, […]