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True size of history's largest shark revealed

A human could fit inside the mouth of the Megalodon. /VCG/ The long extinct Megalodon had a dorsal fin around 1.62 meters tall, about the size of an average human, according to fresh research

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UK Actor: Theatrical 'Closeness' On Socially-Distanced Stages Is Tough

07:15 As theaters and performance spaces start to reopen across Europe, there's no doubt that the live experience will be very different for those on and off the stage.While some venue

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Final curtain for London’s theaters? Never, says actor Simon Callow

01:37 With COVID-19 causing the indefinite closure of Britain’s playhouses, the pandemic has pushed London’s famed West End theaters to the brink, with approximately 2,700 job losses s

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Nanoleaf’s new Hexagon Shapes are a surprisingly lively and organic addition to your home decor

Nanoleaf essentially created a new smart lighting category with its connected light panels, and since then it has iterated with its pixel-like Canvas, and most recently, its new Shapes Hexagons. The

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African Americans nearly 4 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19: data

Among people with Medicare, African Americans were nearly four times more likely than white Americans to be hospitalized with COVID-19, according to federal data relea

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Systemic racism slows economic growth: Dallas Fed chief Kaplan

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, U.S., October 11, 2019. /Reuters Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black

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Survey: Black Americans most interested in COVID-19 news

Black Americans who have already suffered disproportionately from the coronavirus tend to have a more intense interest toward the news about the epidemic compared to whites and other races, according

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Nigerian newspaper decries African American glass ceiling

Blacks in the United States are unable to reach their full potential because of a glass ceiling created by whites, according to an article in a Nigerian national newsp

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Writethru: U.S. unemployment rate up to record 14.7 pct in April as COVID-19 ravages economy

U.S. employers cut a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April, and the unemployment rate soared to a record 14.7 percent, as COVID-19 continues to ravage the economy, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic

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Poll finds Californian minorities facing more health, economic risks amid COVID-19

Minorities in the U.S. state of California are facing more health and economic risks in the COVID-19 pandemic, with less freedom to work from home and more anxiety ove

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These charts show the racial disparity in the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S

A shopper walks through the Target parking lot in northeast Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The Mississippi Department of Health released figures today that show African Americans are b

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Equality between whites and blacks still elusive in U.S.

03:13 CGTN's Jim Spellman reports on how, despite strides, disparity remains between blacks and whites in the U.S.

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Americans say racism in U.S. widespread: Gallup

Over six in 10 Americans say racism against blacks is widespread in the United States, while 41 percent say racism against whites is widespread, Gallup found in a poll released Wednesday.

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White Americans are dying younger as drug and alcohol abuse rises

Life expectancy declined slightly for white Americans in 2014, according to new federal data, a troubling sign that distress among younger and middle-age whites who are dying at ever-higher rates from drug overdoses is lowering average life spans for the white population as a whole.