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  • 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

    3 hours ago
  • 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

  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Now you too can “dismantle white supremacy”, for just $48

    #NotTheOnion.

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    ObituaryBob Moses
    Bob Moses, civil rights leader, 1935-2021

    Maths teacher who organised a pivotal black vote campaign and promoted numeracy for all

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Halima Begum
    Racial discrimination will plague the UK until government intervenes

    To achieve true social mobility, the state must act as a leveller

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    Derek Chauvin
    Chauvin sentenced to more than 22 years for Floyd murder

    Prison term is 10 years longer than state guidelines suggested as judge cites ‘abuse of position and cruelty’

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