Many children are seeing aspects of their identity portrayed as problematic. Having regular conversations about identity can armor them against future harm.
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From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.
Even after accounting for other factors, black detainees remained more than twice as likely to be strip-searched as their white counterparts.
The conservative majority at the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a gerrymandering case that one liberal justice called the ‘now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.’
New research examines the barriers faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at work – and what they’re doing to challenge them.
Hundreds of thousands of Sanborn maps mapped the fire risk of every US city with over 1,000 people in the 20th century.
There’s no evidence of widespread, systematic discrimination against white Americans. Just ask them.
The bill was in the works for years and only passed on its fourth attempt. The debate about it is reminiscent of ongoing discussions about race and migration.
A new executive order would create new guidelines on school discipline, suggesting the current ones are ‘discriminatory.’
Discrimination has made it harder for Black people in the Los Angeles area to buy and keep their homes. Did it also make them more fire-prone when Altadena burned?
People who suffer from everyday discrimination are more likely to have anxiety and depression.
The fallout from Sam Kerr’s UK court case, for racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, could have far-reaching ramifications.
A first-of-its-kind study documents the scope and impact of evictions on Black women and families in metro Detroit.
New research shows kids with more positive experiences – from stable routines to enriching social activities – were significantly less likely to be obese by age eight.
Travelling remains time-consuming, precarious, and shockingly dangerous for most South Africans 30 years after apartheid has ended.
US election coverage often portrays rural America as entirely white and conservative. This narrow view obscures the issues that matter to other voters.
Black women who are more frequently exposed to racism showed stronger connections in areas of the brain involved in rumination and heightened vigilance, both of which lead to faster biological aging.
The review recommends bold changes, like dismantling the Department of Home Affairs. It remains to be seen how much the government will enact.
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.
Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.
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