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Civil rights icon defied death, but now he and his wife navigate pandemic and protests
Judy Meredith isn’t always sure where her husband goes when he walks out into the Mississippi morning. At age 87, Jay is as stubborn as...
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Silicon Valley dominates African startups, as black entrepreneurs struggle to raise financing
American venture capital and private equity is dominating Africa, but it’s mostly funding other white foreign founders as black...
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Manulife, Canadian insurance company, to boost diversity by 30% in five years
Manulife Financial Corp announced yesterday that it was making a push to increase the representation of minorities across its north...
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Women for equality push support female business start-ups in the US
From a project called Stacy’s Rise, the members of the American women’s national soccer side are using their experience as female...
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John Lewis dies at 80, after being a US civil rights hero and Democratic congressman
John Lewis, the civil rights hero and US Democratic congressman, has died at the age of 80. But who was he? Lewis, who was born on 21...
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Catwalk abuses for African models, who make their living risking online scams to sex trafficking
All eyes will be on the catwalk, but the emotions of the model behind Ethiopia’s first reality TV modelling competition are...
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'Colour-blind' France lacks pandemic data for ethnic minorities
Back at the start of France’s COVID-19 crisis in February, epidemiologist Cyrille Delpierre encountered a problem when trying to find out...
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Apple to serve underrepresented minority students giving education to historically Black schools
Apple Inc declared yesterday that it was working with 10 additional historically Black universities and colleges to become “hubs” that...
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