Angelo Paterno rose to speak to an audience in New York City. World War II had concluded just weeks earlier. The awful scope ...

Though the provision was dropped after it faced backlash, the bill initially would have given the State Department the power ...

For example, a 2022 study of nearly 306,000 people in 57 countries found that women demonstrated more cognitive empathy than ...

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina approve new congressional map designed to boost GOP House control and potentially ...

A scholarship for Black students at UC San Diego is now available to anyone, regardless of race, after students and a right-leaning nonprofit organization sued the university for discrimination this ...

Despite how often you hear that America no longer is racist, we remain a racist culture. The difference between the racism of ...

Jamie Kalven is founding executive director of the Invisible Institute, which was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes in 2024. His reporting first brought the police murder of Laquan McDonald case to public ...

I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.

The “plastics industry — i.e., the fossil fuel industry — has misled consumers, claiming that its products are recyclable,” says Holly Kaufman. Even for “technically recyclable plastics, there is not ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...