Council to ask government for rethink on WASPI women compensation
Stockton Council is to write to Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall asking for the controversial decision to be 'revisited once the public finances allow' ...
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Key facts about the U.S. Black population
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.
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‘Devastating’: Wildfire ravages historic Black community in Los Angeles
The community started to take shape in the 1960s. Large numbers of Black families had left the US South and moved westwards, as part of a trend known as the Great Migration. Altadena was one of ...
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Djimon Hounsou on battling ‘systemic racism,’ and reconnecting Black people to their African roots
When Hounsou landed his leading role in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film “Amistad,” the powerful story of the slave trade, a harsh reality that affected much of the Black diaspora was exposed to ...
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Amazon Quietly Rescinds Pledges to Protect Black and LGBTQ Rights
Amazon has quietly removed commitments to protecting the rights of Black and LGBTQ people from its publicly listed corporate policies. This change comes as part of broader corporate rollbacks of ...