RACISM COSTED U.S. ECONOMY $16 TRILLION: CITIGROUP

Highlights

• As per the Citigroup, if the US is successful in tackling key areas of discrimination against African Americans, the economy is likely to witness a boost of $5 trillion in the next five years

• According to Citigroup researchers, the African Americans ha...

HOUSTON: MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DEAD BY CORONAVIRUS ARE AFRICAN AMERICANS?

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• Around 23 percent population of Houston is African American

• Out of total deaths by coronavirus, 66 percent are African Americans.

According to the data published by Texas Medical Center, the majority of coronavirus deaths that are reported in...

FASHION TECH: FIT CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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• The black history month is celebrated to spread the knowledge on African-American culture
• Students from FIT have set up an exhibit on the same called “Black in time”

Black History Month is celebrated in the Un...

Discovery could provide analysis on different disease threats in African Americans

According to a new study by Northwestern Medicine, the amount of African descent in a person's genome determines the level at which those genes are expressed.

The findings could provide insight into the particular threat of diseases in African Americans as well as a different reacti...