Black business owners are often frustrated by systemic racial disparities, but a new study shows how they are using race to capitalize on their ventures.
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Over the past 100 years, US politicians have used racist tropes to stoke white fears of being powerless.
In order to effectively appeal to voters with a shared identity, Kamala Harris and other politicians would need to show that they care about the particular issues they are concerned about.
Your identity is not the result of a single decision, but rather the confluence of several factors.
In the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Jones didn’t give rousing speeches or lead marches. Instead, he doubled down on his art.
The author of ‘A Black Philadelphia Reader,’ a new anthology of writing by Philadelphia authors past and present, revisits four riveting works by local women.
A scholar of nonprofits explains why she’s concerned that the decision in the Fearless Fund case could discourage all efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Since the 1930s, the federal government has made payments to victims of financial hardships and social injustices. But for those suffering from the harms of slavery, the US remains silent.
These endeavors end up turning the complexity of Black life into a stunt.
The Black hosts of the ‘Fresh & Fit’ podcast speak in the parlance of social justice movements, but apply it, in a twisted way, to justify misogyny.
Beyoncé’s country-inspired album has caused a stir because the country music scene has a history of racial segregation that has erased its Black roots and gatekept it from Black artists.
Since the 1970s, corporate boards have included more women and minorities. But those gains are likely to change after a US Supreme Court ruling and increased conservative resistance.
Racial threats and slights take a toll on health, but the continual invalidation and questioning of whether those so-called microaggressions exist has an even more insidious effect, research shows.
Led by a Black businessman named Bob Douglas, the New York Rens, who played their first game on Nov. 3, 1923, became one of the best basketball teams in the country.
Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Black would-be homeowners pay the price when big investors buy up the neighborhood.
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.
The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.
America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the civility and structure of America.
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University
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Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
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Assistant Professor of Race and Media, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
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Senior Lecturer of African American Studies, University of Florida
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Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University School of Public Affairs
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
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Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
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Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland
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Research Assistant in the Department of Global Health, Boston University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Guilford College
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Professor of Anthropology & Director for Undergraduate Research, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University