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  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    News in-depthCryptocurrencies
    Crypto collapse reverberates widely among black American investors

    Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Race at work: how hard are companies really trying?

    Dismantling systemic racism is a huge task, but many employees think organisations are failing to take it seriously

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    George Floyd
    Two years since George Floyd’s murder, healing remains elusive for Minneapolis

    Talk of systemic racism still dominates local politics, yet efforts to address it have been frustrated

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    Buffalo shooting shines light on racist ‘great replacement’ theory

    Idea that minorities are conspiring with Democrats to displace white Americans gains traction on far right

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Biden condemns ‘poison’ of white supremacy behind Buffalo shooting

    President calls on Americans to reject racist ‘replacement theory’ during visit to city

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    News in-depth
    ‘It’s like the devil came to town’: Buffalo grieves after America’s latest racist attack

    Tragedy fits longstanding pattern of rightwing extremism, say experts

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Fund management
    The trillions of dollars bypassing black-run funds 

    Lack of allocations poses ‘huge problem’ of inequality for the industry, warns investor John Rogers

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    InterviewTheatre
    Claudia Rankine: ‘We are inside a culture that’s dedicated to whiteness’

    The award-winning writer’s 2019 play ‘The White Card’ — new to the UK — deals with art, race and America

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    Asian Americans take safety into their own hands after violent attacks 

    A spate of attacks has prompted people to take self-defence classes and acquire pepper spray

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    You Don’t Know Us Negroes — Zora Neale Hurston, the great American provocateur

    A comprehensive collection of her essays spans three decades of iconoclastic, fearless writing

  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    The Big Read
    American football: the racism lawsuit overshadowing the Super Bowl

    On the eve of the NFL’s biggest game, a black coach claims discriminatory hiring practices are widespread in the league

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    Sport
    NFL sued for racial discrimination by ex-Miami Dolphins coach

    Brian Flores files lawsuit against US football league and three teams

  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    News in-depthUS society
    Race and finance: the student loan trap

    College debt is weighing on the economic prospects of black Americans

  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    Enuma Okoro
    The crafty, comic genius of HBO’s Insecure

    Issa Rae’s series about ‘regular black people living life’ helped to shift the TV landscape

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Anne-Marie Slaughter
    To better defend democracy, the US must admit to its own imperfection

    That recognition should lie at the core of any American effort to champion democratic principles abroad

  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
    The Big Read
    Race and finance: America’s segregated banking sector

    After the murder of George Floyd, lenders pledged to help communities of colour. But many are still struggling to get cheaper loans

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Yes, there is a third way on ‘wokeness’

    Our aim should be to marginalise the whole debate. It should not be the culture war of our time

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery

    Shooting of 25-year-old black man in Georgia last year fuelled racial justice protests across the US

  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    ReviewFiction
    The Trees — racism and America’s legacy of lynching

    Percival Everett’s 22nd novel proceeds from two grisly race-related murders to dig deep into the roots of white supremacism

  • Saturday, 23 October, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Paradise found: my journey to America’s ‘Black Eden’

    Idlewild has long been a haven for African Americans. Now a new generation is fighting to save its legacy

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    InterviewFilm
    André Holland: ‘I grew up feeling afraid of white folks’

    The ‘Moonlight’ actor discusses his new 1920s-set film ‘Passing’, which explores the thorny issue of black people assumed to be white

  • Monday, 4 October, 2021
    Patti Waldmeir
    Racial equity is key in efforts to revive Detroit

    Fresh strategies to breathe life into my hometown give hope where past attempts have failed

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Thomas Chatterton Williams: ‘I never thought ideas were about signalling allegiance’

    The writer talks about making enemies on the left and the right

  • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang — fear and prejudice in Chinatown

    This sharply observed memoir evokes the many struggles of an undocumented Chinese family in New York, told from the perspective of the author as a seven-year-old child

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    News in-depthUS employment
    Rise in black jobless rate sets back US progress on labour market parity

    African-American unemployment hit 8.8% last month but fell for other groups

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