Donald Trump has picked former football player Scott Turner to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. While…
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Nancy Pelosi: 30% of Republican voters are racist, sexist or homophobic
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has stoked the ire of conservatives after she suggested during an interview that 30% of…
Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ’60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s white Christian nationalism
By Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church…
In the face of DEI backlash, belonging plays a key role to future success
By Andrea Carter, Adler University Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts have become increasingly visible in U.S. workplaces, especially over the…
Die-hard Black Trump supporter accuses GOP group of calling him ‘a slave’
FORT MEYERS, Fla. — One of former President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters, who is a Black man, has filed…
There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black
By Alisha Gaines, Florida State University A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew…
Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased
By Benjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education,…
Laws meant to keep different races apart still influence dating patterns, decades after being invalidated
By Solangel Maldonado, Seton Hall University If you are single and looking for a romantic partner, chances are that you…
Three Black men sue American Airlines claiming racial discrimination for removal from plane
Three Black men filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, accusing the carrier of racial discrimination after they were removed from…
How Black teachers lost when civil rights won in Brown v. Board
By Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, University of North Dakota; Andrea Guiden Pittman, American University; Andrene J. Castro, Virginia Commonwealth University, and…
