Latest News on Race

By Robert Abare—June 7, 2018 Recent instances of people calling the police against black people for going about their daily lives have involved a former Obama White House official moving into his home and a graduate student at Yale University napping in a common room....

By Alia E. Dastagir—May 28, 2018 On Tuesday, Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores in the U.S. to conduct employee training "to address implicit bias" and "prevent discrimination" after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia store in April. Starbucks is...

By Richard J. Reddick—May 15, 2018 It has been a banner year for discrimination. Two recent events on college campuses at Colorado State University and Yale bring issues of hyper-surveillance and white supremacy to the forefront. At Colorado State University, a White...

By Carvell Wallace—Feb. 12, 2018 The Grand Lake Theater — the kind of old-time movie house with cavernous ceilings and ornate crown moldings — is one place I take my kids to remind us that we belong to Oakland, Calif. Whenever there is a film or community event that...

By Laurie Calvert—August 24, 2017 I was a racist teacher and I didn’t recognize it. At the time that I taught, I would have argued that I was the opposite. I was a progressive, a Democrat. I campaigned in my progressive town in Western North Carolina for the first...

By Veronica Lopez In case you didn't know, Hispanic Heritage Month is in full swing. The month long celebration of Hispanic culture runs until October 15. One of the many topics of discussion you are sure to hear about this month is racism, both towards and within the...

By David Hawkins and Tara Nicola—August 16, 2017 The population of students entering higher education is more diverse than at any point in our nation’s history, with continued, significant growth ahead. According to data from the Western Interstate Commission on...

By Bronwyn Carlson—May 25, 2017 As a lecturer in Indigenous studies I reminded my classes about the significance of this week. “Sorry Day” on 26 May is a day to remember those whose lives are forever affected by the government’s policies and practices of forcibly...

By Blair Foster and Michèle Stephenson—July 1, 2015 Why do so many white people find it extremely uncomfortable to talk about race? Setting out to make the next installment of our Op-Doc video series about race in America, we hoped to address that question. Because we...