'If not now, when?': Black women seize political spotlight in U.S.
Black women have long been the heart of the Democratic Party, but for decades that allegiance didn’t translate to their own political rise.
Big companies track workforce diversity but won't share the results
Among companies in the Russell 1000 index, 72 percent don’t disclose any racial or ethnic information about their employees.
John Lewis hailed as ‘conscience’ of U.S. Congress at Capitol memorial
In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised Democratic Rep. John Lewis as a moral force for the nation on Monday in a Capitol Rotunda memorial service rich with symbolism and punctuated by the booming, recorded voice of the late civil rights ...
A global re-branding is taking place, but it’s unlikely fresh marketing by the world’s biggest beauty brands will reverse the deeply rooted prejudices around "colorism.”
Portland clashes reflect a leftist history, but also a racist past
For Portland, social conflict and street clashes are nothing new. The Oregon city has a long history of pro-labor militancy coupled with an anti-fascist culture and defiance of authorities — but also, further back, a dark segregationist history. So Portland, despite its small Black population, ...
Lawmaker recalled as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that "good trouble” could change the world.
Black Lives Matter prompts important conversations in Japanese sports
Despite its distant origins the movement has resonated in the nation, where a growing number of biracial athletes have faced racial issues.
A new DNA study published Thursday sheds fresh light on the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, from the legacy of rape that can be seen in today's genetics to how disease likely decimated some groups forced to work in deadly conditions. For example, DNA ...
Japanese American woman who symbolized WWII injustice dies at 80
More than 120,000 people were forced into camps in the United States during the war, an act for which the U.S. government later apologized and paid reparations.
Workers protest racial inequality on day of U.S. national strike
Workers from the service industry, fast-food chains and the gig economy rallied with organized labor Monday to protest systemic racism and economic inequality, staging demonstrations across the U.S. and around the world seeking better treatment of Black Americans in the workplace. Organizers said at least ...
U.S. adds 11 companies to economic blacklist over China's treatment of Uighurs
The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday added 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it called human rights violations in connection with China's treatment of its Uighurs in Xinjiang in western China to the U.S. economic blacklist. The department said the companies were involved in using ...
Britain on Sunday accused Beijing of "gross, egregious human rights abuses" over its "deeply troubling" treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in China's western Xinjiang region. Rights groups and experts estimate that more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities have been rounded ...
