Black would-be homeowners pay the price when big investors buy up the neighborhood.
Articles on African Americans
Displaying 41 - 60 of 333 articles
A sociologist interviewed more than 200 Black workers about their experiences. Here’s what she found.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
People who object to affirmative action were more likely to discriminate against job candidates with Black-sounding names than those who supported it, whether or not they had to rush.
As the “Queen” of gospel music, Mahalia Jackson sang two songs during the historic March on Washington. But her most famous line may have been a suggestion to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
While a Florida curriculum implies that enslaved Africans ‘benefited’ from skills acquired through slavery, history shows they brought knowledge and skills to the US that predate their captivity.
The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.
At a time when Americans celebrated their nation’s independence, it’s clear not every American enjoys the same constitutional rights.
Juneteenth is part of a rich heritage of African American emancipation and freedom celebrations.
The US military’s switch to an all-volunteer force in 1973 led to a series of magazine ads that sought to portray military service as a way for women and people of color to move up in society.
We often talk about the American political landscape as if it were a line – Democrats on the left, Republicans on the right. Two political scientists say that view doesn’t reflect reality.
The lack of visibility by Black researchers and physicians in scientific literature perpetuates systemic racism in medicine.
Kittrell’s legacy shows that home economics was always about more than cooking and sewing. It’s also a reminder that issues that affect families are simultaneously local and global.
Millions of enslaved Africans were forcefully converted to the Christian faith. The Black church came about when African Americans began to establish their own congregations.
Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.
In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
A scholar of Black entertainment history reflects on the death of producer Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss and reflects on the history of Black male entertainers dancing or telling jokes to their deaths.
Long COVID impacts one in every five people who’ve had the virus. In the U.S., early research shows people of colour are most likely to develop long COVID. It has been called a mass-disabling event.
A scholar of law and humanities compares bans on dogs with any pit bull genes to “one drop” laws that once classified people with even a single Black ancestor as Black.
Early on, public health messaging focused on the need for vaccines to combat COVID-19. But far less attention has been given to the role of boosters in preventing deaths and reducing inequities.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
-
Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
-
Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
-
Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
-
Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
-
Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
-
Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
-
Professor of Geography and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
-
Professor of History, Morehouse College
-
Associate Professor of Communications, Elon University
-
Professor of American History, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
-
Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
-
Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
-
Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University