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Letter
Letter: Higher tax tackles investor ‘dry powder’ and inequality
...During the first world war the US government expanded tax revenues by creating an “excess profits” tax levied on corporations and individuals....
February 14, 2024
Letter
Letter: Iran and the parallels with Germany in 1914
...Hizbollah is revving up in the north after consultations with Iran, whose creature it is....
November 1, 2023
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Letter
Letter: Don’t penalise poorer states for climate crisis they didn’t cause
...These support measures have yet to materialise....
October 3, 2023
News in-depthCoronavirus treatment
Scientists grapple with long Covid puzzle as millions fall sick
...This suggests sufferers’ immune systems “rev up” to the point where they move from protect to attack mode, weakening healthy cells....
February 15, 2024
Letter
Letter: Online data collection leaves users exposed
...The recent revelation of detailed web browsing data being sold to advertisers highlights the urgent need for collaborative efforts to address the escalating risks to individuals’ and officials...
November 17, 2023
Due Diligence
Activists circle Salesforce’s celeb-schmoozing CEO Premium content
...Lazard has hired Wassim Al-Khatib, the former head of Citigroup in Saudi Arabia, as chief executive of its advisory business in the Middle East and north Africa....
January 25, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Crossword
How to do cryptic crosswords: a handy guide
...Though one might note that Al, apart from being aluminium, has a regrettable habit of always referring to “gangster”, as if no other Al than Capone is well known enough to appear in a crossword....
September 20, 2022
Due Diligence
Dealmaking and debauchery return to Bourbon Street Premium content
...Another sharp barb came from civil rights advocates Reverend Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, who critiqued the virtually all-white Delaware Chancery court, the venue where deals are ratified or disputed...
March 18, 2022
HTSIThe HTSI Autumn Arts Issue 2021
Anatomy of an art fair. Which type are you?
...In Venice, they might put in an appearance, say, on San Giorgio Maggiore for the Pinault dinner – “but briefly, because their guests want to go, then they’ll go to Da Frantz or Al Covo for dinner”, says...
September 24, 2021
News in-depthUS society
Rittenhouse verdict settles little in US debate over race and justice
...Reverend Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, responded by organising a rally of black pastors outside the courthouse last week....
November 21, 2021
George Floyd
Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd
...Floyd’s family held a press conference shortly after the conviction was announced, where they were joined by Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist, and their attorney Benjamin Crump....
April 21, 2021
US race relations
Thousands gather for civil-rights march in Washington
...Friday’s march was organised by the National Action Network, a civil-rights group founded by Al Sharpton. Mr Sharpton addressed the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial, alongside Martin Luther King III....
August 28, 2020
George Floyd protests
Trump clashes with Republicans over Floyd protests
...The Rev Al Sharpton, a civil-rights activist, said in a eulogy that the killing of Floyd was a reminder of how all African-Americans had lived an experience where there was always a knee on their necks....
June 5, 2020
David Gardner
American threat to quit Iraq leaves its allies in the lurch
...As they rev up their campaign once more against nearly two decades of political disaster, the prime minister offers some hope to Iraqis....
October 8, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) March in Washington Rev Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will mark the 57th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday....
August 28, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
George Floyd protests
Trump rages at protesters as George Floyd is laid to rest
...Delivering the eulogy, Al Sharpton, a civil-rights activist, said the world had been spurred into action by Floyd’s tragic death....
June 9, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) Auto start-ups rev up Spac issuance Automotive tech start-ups catapulted on to the US stock market via blank cheque vehicles have together amassed a market capitalisation approaching $60bn even as...
January 12, 2021
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) George Floyd’s funeral In addition to family, those invited to Tuesday’s private funeral in Houston, Texas, include Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and civil rights leader, the Rev Al Sharpton...
June 9, 2020
News in-depthUS race relations
Black Lives Matter does a lot with a little
...Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, said a national march on Washington was planned for August 28, the anniversary of the 1963 march where Martin Luther King Jr gave his “I Have a Dream” speech....
June 14, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Fires in the Mirror — radical portrait of a racially charged riot
...The focus then shifts to the riot and its aftermath, as experienced by family members of the victims, an anonymous rioter and controversial pastor Al Sharpton, among others....
November 12, 2019
The Week Ahead
Floyd funeral, UK quarantine, Fed meeting
...As well as family members, invitees to Tuesday’s funeral include Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton....
June 7, 2020
Grenfell Tower disaster
Grenfell fire inquiry calls for urgent action on tower block safety
...“I think people know that ahead there are years to go and it feels like a marathon but we have only got as far as the seven-mile mark,” Rev Long said....
October 30, 2019
The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
When a politician uses linguistic fluidity it can backfire
...When the Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed Al Sharpton’s National Action Network last week, her Republican critics seemed to detect her speaking “urban”....
April 11, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
New York: the high schools admissions test dividing a city
...“[Scrapping the test would be a] political band-aid [that] would not fix a single one of the [city’s] 480 broken middle schools,” says Kirsten John Foy — a former aide to Al Sharpton, one of the city’s most...
October 7, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery — all thriller, no filler
...It was strange what your Daddy had to deal with,” Al Sharpton said at his funeral, casting Jackson as a victim of US racism. Faith Ringgold’s “Who’s Bad?”...
June 28, 2018

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