Washington Post journalists speak with top experts about the medical toll of racial inequality and ways to address disparities in health care. Associate editor Jonathan Capehart begins with assistant ...

“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race” was the message told to students, faculty and community members in the overflowing Klarman auditorium, Wednesday evening. Prof.

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

Income inequality broadened between white residents and residents of color in Washington, D.C., in 2016, according to data from the United States Census Bureau’s 2016 American Community Survey. The ...

“White. Brown. Brown. White.” My not-quite-3-year-old is pointing at the faces of dancing cygnets in her “Swan Lake” book. As a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on the tendency of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook File Photo/DAILY. Buy this photo. Her studies looked across singular measures of socioeconomic ...

A separate survey of U.S. teens asked how they feel when topics related to racism or racial inequality and sexual orientation or gender identity come up in the classroom. Among teens who are not ...

We can never let it seem normal, or appropriate, when governments ban teaching topics that are controversial, in literature or science. Most of us old enough remember being appalled at the censorship ...

The DA’s Bill misreads our Constitution and our social reality, and should also be seen in the context of the transnational backlash against race-conscious measures that aim to redress the legacy of ...