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Lloyd’s has launched a programme of initiatives to help Black and ethnically diverse people join and build careers in the market following independent research

Lloyd’s of London has pledged to pay over £40 million in reparations to address its historic involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, after its links...

Lloyd's of London will invest 40 million pounds ($49.6 million) in regions affected by the transatlantic slave trade, it said on Wednesday, after a report

Lloyd's of London, the insurance market, said Wednesday it would spend £52 million ($64 million) on racial-equality causes after a report found it played a "significant role" in the transatlantic slave trade."Black Beyond Data's research makes clear that Lloyd's, which is over three hundred years old, played a significant role in enabling the transatlantic slave trade and economy, forming part of a sophisticated network of financial interests and activities tha...

He reveals why "there is much more to do"

Historian Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history

Jessica Marie Johnson will serve as co-principal investigator on a project that aims to bring the humanities and archival research to the community

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities Credit: Getty Images July 15, 2021 There is a general belief that data is objective, neutral, and therefore accurate. "Numbers dont lie," goes the oft-repeated maxim. But what about the people interpreting the data: can individuals really be ob...