On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever changing baseball and society.
Robinson was Black, and the integration of all-white major league baseball was perhaps the most important story about civil rights in the years immediately following World War II.
Billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to take Twitter private by buying 100% of its publicly held shares in a deal worth US$43 billion.
New Zealand Rugby’s just released report into the culture of the Black Ferns national women’s team is damning, but sadly all too familiar.
Dès l’invasion de l’Ukraine le 24 février 2022, le président russe Vladimir Poutine a décrété des lois draconiennes de propagande. Ceux qui dénoncent la guerre et les crimes de la Russie s’exposent à 15 ans d’emprisonnement.
Ce faisant, il a anéanti un paysage médiatique riche et varié.
Women’s football is on the rise. Tickets for the final of the Women’s European Championship, due to take place at Wembley Stadium on 31 July 2022, recently sold out within less than an hour of going on sale. The match could break the attendance record for any European Championship match, men or women’s.
It has emerged that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, claims non-domicile (or “non-dom”) tax status, meaning that she does not have to pay UK taxes on income earned elsewhere. This revelation has drawn criticism, especially in light of Sunak raising taxes for working households.
When it comes to water security – a reliable, good supply of safe water – just 29 African countries have made some progress over the past three to five years. Twenty-five have made none.
A coat hanger. A broomstick. A pool cue.
All these objects were used in a series of sexual assaults in recent years in which the perpetrators allegedly targeted high school boys who play sports.
April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history of American unions.
In a result that could reverberate in workplaces across the U.S., the independent Amazon Labor Union – first formed in 2020 by Chris Smalls, an Amazon worker fired for protesting what he saw as inadequate COVID-19 safety precautions – got the better of the previously successful anti-union efforts of the online retailer. It means that Smalls’ warehouse in Staten Island, New York, will be the first to have a unionized workforce.
One surprising success story to come out of the pandemic was how many countries and cities were able to significantly reduce street homelessness. Lockdowns enabled governments to treat homelessness as a public health emergency and act swiftly to accommodate and support people experiencing homelessness.
Les derniers sondages mettent en avant une forte proportion d’abstentionnistes, près de 30 %, dès le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle. Si les travaux de sociologie électorale, notamment en France, insistent sur l’existence de « variables lourdes » de l’abstention, les relations entre la participation électorale et le travail, malgré ses mutations, sont toujours structurantes.
Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores of street protests organized by the social justice group that attracted hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the world.
So good, and so unexpected, has been Australia’s economic improvement over the past three months, it has wiped one-third of the projected 2022-23 budget deficit. Or it would have, had the government not decided to give away almost half (45%) the windfall.
À l’heure où les 12 candidats à l’élection présidentielle déclarent leur patrimoine, leurs intérêts et leurs activités), la question de la transparence des comptes, au-delà de celle de nos plus hauts élus, se pose concernant les organisations publiques.
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