Race and Ethnicity

This year, reporters at The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica investigated the impact of sugar cane burning in Florida. The harvesting practice helps produce more than half of America’s cane sugar, but…

2020 saw the highest number of women of color elected to congress in U.S. history, as well as the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman (and woman…

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd …

Eight areas of life critical to health and well-being totally account for why Black adults in the US have a higher risk of early death.

Too many people for too long have lived with raw sewage in their yards in poverty-stricken parts of Alabama.

The B-CORE project, described in this report, applied the deliberative democracy method to engage affected community members in problem-solving focused on maternal health inequities in California….

In less than a week, seven people were shot after doing the ordinary — ringing a doorbell or turning around in a driveway.

How can those of us who sit at foundations but are not experts in reparations shift our behaviors and practices? How can we give Black leaders, Indigenous leaders, and other leaders of color the support they need while helping to create the conditions required to achieve collective liberation?

For all of its power and potential, generative AI makes it easy, fast and accessible for bad actors to produce harmful content.

Advocacy coalition Black in Repro is training women to lobby legislators, educate their communities and build alliances.

The reproductive-justice movement came into its own in June 1994, when a group of mostly white women gathered at a conference in Chicago to hear about the Clinton Administration’s proposal for…

In a recent study in PLOS ONE, researchers from 6 different countries, including Camilo Alejo and Catherine Potvin of the Department of Biology at McGill University, examined the importance of…