Browsing: Race
New York state is throwing its $260 billion retirement fund at ‘long-standing failures of oversight’ at Tesla, Wells Fargo, and Chipotle
An investment fund wants a reckoning at three major companies after a litany of serious fraud, sexual harassment and racial…
New York state wants companies to protect their LGBTQ+ Gen Z and millennial workers—and it’s throwing a $260 billion retirement fund at the issue
Money talks. That’s what Thomas DiNapoli, comptroller of the state of New York, is counting on when it comes to…
Google searches for “breast cancer risk assessment” soared last week when actress Olivia Munn shared on Instagram that her OB/GYN…
Campaigners have called for “immediate action” on racial bias in medical devices like pulse oximeters following the publication of a…
White people’s net worth outgrew Black Americans’ by 30 percentage points in the pandemic, New York Fed study finds
A strong performance in financial markets, particularly an outsize gain for the stock market in 2021, helped entrench existing trends…
Sleep loss more common among African Americans after police-involved killings of unarmed Black people like Eric Garner and Tamir Rice: Study
The effect of police violence on Black Americans is tracked in two new studies, with one tying police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances…
West Point can keep taking race into account in admissions—for now, Supreme Court order says
The Supreme Court is allowing West Point to continue taking race into account in admissions, while a lawsuit over its policies continues.…
High school teacher catches Target misidentifying civil rights icons for Black History Month: ‘They could have caught it by just doing a quick Google search’
Target says it will stop selling a product dedicated to Civil Rights icons after a now-viral TikTok spotlighted some significant errors. In a…
Mother who called police on her own son for shoplifting shocked, appalled by use of ‘unprovoked violence and use of force’
A Vermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a…
Housing inequality: Black homeowners won’t catch up at this rate for over 300 years. But they could with a $1.7 trillion affordable housing plan, McKinsey says
The aftermath of the 2020 racial awakening in America made it seem like corporations, politicians, and other institutions were taking…