Latest News on Race

By Thomas Ahearn—Dec. 17, 2018 The use of technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms will continue to improve background checks for employment purposes but the “human touch” will still be needed due to discrimination concerns in 2019. This trend has...

Nov. 15 2018 The state of New Jersey officially recognized the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation as an American Indian tribe thirty-six years ago, in 1982. State recognition is important to tribes because it affirms that our people and culture are both part of the...

By Donald Ladd—Oct. 8 2018 The first song Krista Hinman learned to play on the piano was Dixie, the de facto battle hymn of the Confederate States of America. She learned the minstrel-song-turned-slavery-anthem growing up in Southaven, Mississippi, a predominantly...

By Kari Paul—Oct. 11 2018 When Christine, at 25-year-old student who identifies as queer began to do rounds at local health clinics where she attends medical school in Missouri, she felt she had to keep much of her personal life obscured. “Working in a very...

By Tom Perkins—Oct. 4 2018 Just days after Founders Brewing Co. decided it's cool with supporters of state-sponsored homophobia, it's been revealed that the Grand Rapids-based brewer is being sued in federal court over alleged racial discrimination. A lawsuit filed in...

By Martha Hostetter and Sarah Klein—Sept. 27 2018 It’s been 15 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s Unequal Treatment report, which synthesized a wide body of research demonstrating that U.S. racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to...

By Cory Collins—Sept. 1 2018 Today, white privilege is often described through the lens of Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Originally published in 1988, the essay helps readers recognize white privilege by...

By Alvin Chang—Aug. 30, 2018 I first heard about the “penalty” my junior year of high school. I was sitting in an SAT prep class because I had barely broken 1000 on my first practice SAT. During a snack break, another Asian kid in the class said to me, “You know we...

By Linn Washington Jr.—June 13, 2018 The day after Starbucks closed thousands of its coffee shops across America to conduct training for its employees to increase awareness about racial biases, Holly Morales attended a program at Philadelphia’s African-American...