Latest News on Race

By Sameer Rao—Feb. 13, 2017 Like the Super Bowl and Golden Globes before it, the 59th Grammy Awards ceremony last night (February 13) became a platform for political and creative statements at the intersection of music, race and activism. Here are the moments where...

May 17, 2016 While the country, as a whole, likes to believe that we’ve achieved the utopian vision of equality, the sad truth is that inequality persists in all sectors of society. The extent of that inequality is more than evident in the latest research brief...

By Emily Peck—Dec. 12, 2016 Talking frankly about race relations isn’t the kind of thing that normally happens at a massive accounting firm. But this past summer, PricewaterhouseCoopers took time out to do just that, starting a conversation that’s now reshaping the...

Dec. 14, 2016 Two Asian American students have joined Harvard in its effort to defend the schools affirmative action program for underrepresented students. Both students are from Southern California and are current applicants to Harvard. “Asian students and other...

By Krista Richmond—Dec. 9, 2016 Whitney Ingram’s interest in science started as a girl. This month, she becomes the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in physics at UGA — and she wants other young girls to do the same. “I hope I can encourage girls to...

By Henry Louis Gates Jr.—July 18, 2015 I needed to talk to real Cubans and to find out what they thought about race and racism in their society. Soon enough, I was chatting away with our drivers, two men who were part of our film crew named Rafael and Yoxander. They...

By Emmanuel Felton—Nov. 3, 2016 What will it take to get more black teachers to stay in the classroom? School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators’ professional growth, argue researchers Ashley...

By Ed Diokno—Nov. 24, 2016 The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit this week against Bernards Township, New Jersey, alleging that the township violated a federal act which protects religious groups from discrimination in zoning and other land use laws. The...

Nov. 24, 2016 Maori and Pacific medical students have graduated in record numbers this year, the University of Auckland says. They made up one fifth of the 215 new doctors from the university's November graduation. Between Auckland and Otago universities, there have...