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If you talk to many of the people working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, you’ll hear that we are on the cusp of a technology that will be far more transformative than simply computers and the internet, one that could bring about a new industrial revolution and usher in a utopia — or perhaps pose the greatest threat in our species’s history.

Nine in 10 investors backed a call last month for International Business Machines Corp. to produce an annual diversity report.

A nonprofit group that helps Black and marginalized communities in Kentucky has received a six-figure donation from a white donor who says they recently inherited family wealth — and then learned that their great-grandfather owned enslaved people.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plan to pour more than half a billion dollars into affordable housing isn’t enough to meet the need or halt gentrification in the city

President Biden announced on Tuesday he seeks to double the share of federal contracts that go to small,  disadvantaged businesses over the next few years as part of his administration’s goal to narrow the racial wealth gap.

On May 19, 107-year-old Viola Fletcher visited Washington, D.C. to testify before Congress in its hearing for the centennial of Tulsa, Okla. race massacre.

People have become more likely to use a new brand or stop using one because of its response to calls for racial justice, according to a new survey released last month.

Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods, dividing many Black communities and increasing car dependence.

The CEOs of the six biggest U.S. banks gathered before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday for the first time since the financial crisis in 2008 to face questions over their institutions’ roles in American life.

As many as 65.6 million American children — 90% of all kids in the U.S. — would benefit from an expanded child tax credit.

Warren criticized Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles — who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, and whose four-year term is set to expire in October — during a Senate Banking Committee hearing.

One year after the police killing of George Floyd, where does America go from here?

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon for anticompetitive practices and price-fixing.

A year after George Floyd’s death, companies are balancing demands for rapid change against complaints from some conservatives about “woke CEOs” wading into political fights.

A new study found that homes in predominantly white neighborhoods in the Milwaukee area are worth a staggering 382% more than homes in predominantly Black neighborhoods, making the Milwaukee metropolitan area the sixth-most inequitable region for real estate in the U.S., according to the real estate data company Clever.