Startup founder’s alleged $175 million fraud spotlights inequality in finance, experts said Thursday, April 13 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- JPMorgan Chase trumpeted its $175 million acquisition of a college financial planning company called Frank in 2021, boasting that the firm served more than five million students.Little more than a year later, however, the nation's largest bank sued Frank founder Charlie... Read More.
Experts warn of prolonged COVID-19 pandemic due to vaccine inequality Wednesday, July 28 by ABC News(LONDON, HONG KONG and JAKARTA) -- A perfect storm with the coronavirus appears to be brewing across the Asia-Pacific region: surges in the highly contagious delta variant combined with slow vaccination uptake.Tight vaccine supplies are a major factor and experts caution that unless most... Read More.
Nikole Hannah-Jones says UNC tenure fiasco indicative of broader racial inequality in higher learning Thursday, July 8 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was offered tenure at the journalism school of her alma mater, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, but she won’t be taking it.Instead, she will go to Howard University after her tenure was initially blocked... Read More.
New ‘Alien’ series won’t feature Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley; will battle “inequality,” creator says Thursday, July 1 by ABC NewsWhen one thinks of the Alien movies, they immediately think of Sigourney Weaver's tough-as-nails Ellen Ripley, as well as acid-bleeding xenomorphs stalking humans in the shadows of space.And while alien warfare certainly comes to mind when one thinks of the films, class warfare likely doesn't, but that... Read More.
