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Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the racial struggles facing the U.S. today.
People who haven’t gotten vaccinated for COVID-19 often have complex reasons for their relunctance or may face other barriers. Lumping them all together undercuts the vaccination campaign.
Evidence shows that many Black Americans experience police killings of unarmed Black people – even those they do not know – as traumatic events, causing acute physical and emotional distress.
Director Barry Jenkins’ delicate dance with beauty and suffering seeks to create a fuller picture of the world Black Americans – then and now – inhabit.
New research confirms that unfair police treatment is psychologically damaging and that the consequences are decidedly worse for certain racial and ethnic groups.
A new study suggests exposure to police violence may affect the outcome of a pregnancy.
The findings suggest that many Black and Hispanic Americans don’t believe health care providers are listening to them.
Discriminatory zoning and housing policies have concentrated poverty in America along racial lines. As a result, healthy food options are limited in many low-income and Black neighborhoods.
Former enslaved persons never got ‘forty acres and a mule,’ and their descendants have been denied reparations for the legacy of slavery. Will Joe Biden be the president to change that?
Though COVID-19 has killed Black Americans at nearly twice the rate as white Americans, Black people are the least likely racial group to say they’re eager to get the vaccine.
There aren’t just health care disparities between white and Black people. There are funding disparities too that make it harder for Black scientists to succeed in academia.
Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
Everyone’s saying it: ‘Democracy is fragile’ in the United States. But a political science scholar says that has always been the case.
In the U.S., people of color are more likely to die of COVID-19 than whites. The new administration can change this.
A study of 800 Black American families shows early experiences of racism have long-term consequences for physical and mental health.
From the civil rights era to the 2020 election, Black Churches have been at the forefront of encouraging voter registration – and fighting voter suppression.
While the debates about Kamala Harris’ multiraciality may seem new, they are similar to the commentary other high-profile mixed-race people in the US have received about their racial identities.
The census will likely count fewer Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin than there actually are.
As the country reels from a series of killings of Black men by the police, two scholars report that their research shows that stops by police of Black men can hurt their families.
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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