Amazon.com Inc. pledged to increase the number of women and Black employees in its senior ranks as part of an unusually detailed set of diversity commitments for a company that has rarely publicly discussed the makeup of its workforce.

President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan and $1.5 trillion budget proposal are just the first steps in a likely government-wide effort to remove barriers to racial equality and environmental justice, a White House official said Wednesday.

Brenda Mallory, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, won Senate confirmation on Wednesday.

Hundreds of U.S. corporations and executives signed on to a new statement calling for a defense of Americans’ voting rights, the latest united backlash against Republican-led state efforts that threaten access to the polls.

The U.S. vaccination drive has failed to equitably reach people of all races, and the pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine is halting key efforts to jab hard-to-reach minority populations.

Chicago must give a public interest group the redacted version of an action plan it drew up in 2018 to address the possible public response to an unfavorable verdict in a highly publicized murder trial of a city police officer, an Illinois appeals court said.