African Americans

Serena Williams is not alone in having grounds to suspect bias.

• By Tom Jacobs

New research suggests a culture of bias is a bigger problem than individual racist officers.

• By Tom Jacobs

A new study finds African Americans on reality television are more likely to be both the victim and perpetrator of verbal aggression.

• By Tom Jacobs

Paul Quinn College in Dallas became the nation's first urban work college. Now it's expanding to a second campus and creating a consortium of other urban colleges that may join the work college movement.

• By Delece Smith-Barrow

The seeds of the Trump movement were laid more than 50 years before his bid for the White House, after Southern Democrats suffered a series of voter defections.

• By Jared Keller

In a new study, prospective teachers were more likely to judge behavior as hostile if the child was African American.

• By Tom Jacobs

Twenty years after the brutal, racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, some residents are trying to scrub the crime—and the bigotry behind it—from the town's history.

• By John Savage

On the question of whether preventing employers from asking about criminal history really leads to more equitable hiring practices, the evidence is disturbingly mixed.

• By James McWilliams

There are 2.2 million incarcerated individuals in the U.S.

• By Ashley Hackett

A new study suggests the answer is yes.

• By James McWilliams

New research suggests those impassioned rallies and demonstrations may have had a positive impact.

• By Tom Jacobs

Quality of medical care and mortality are frequently linked to socioeconomic success. But for African Americans, that's often not the case.

• By Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

A conversation with Michelle Joan Wilkinson about the exhibit she curated for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

• By Brentin Mock

Women across the country are working to build economic empowerment in the fledgling legal marijuana industry for people of color.

• By Caitlin Cruz

Timothy B. Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett Till reminds us how little has changed.

• By Brandon Tensley

By minimizing how we talk about slavery, we ignore its profound impact on the development of the American economy.

• By Tasha Williams

Widespread sexual exploitation before the Civil War strongly influenced the genetic make-up of essentially all African Americans alive today.

• By Michael White

More evidence that race plays a role in who goes to jail in the U.S.

• By Tom Jacobs

Seven churches have burned to the ground over the past few weeks. Here's why their destruction matters.

• By Jared Keller

An interview with Nikki Khanna, a sociologist at the University of Vermont who specializes in racial identity.

• By Kate Wheeling

Unfortunately, only to a degree.

• By Jared Keller

A notable side effect of the #BlackLivesMatter movement: the conversation around the mental health of African Americans.

• By Veronica Womack

Public sector job creation might be lagging because of anti-black sentiment.

• By Noah Berlatsky

This a question for The1Janitor, who offers some interesting perspective on cultural appropriation.

• By Lisa Wade