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Beyoncé’s country-inspired album has caused a stir because the country music scene has a history of racial segregation that has erased its Black roots and gatekept it from Black artists.
Since the 1970s, corporate boards have included more women and minorities. But those gains are likely to change after a US Supreme Court ruling and increased conservative resistance.
Racial threats and slights take a toll on health, but the continual invalidation and questioning of whether those so-called microaggressions exist has an even more insidious effect, research shows.
Led by a Black businessman named Bob Douglas, the New York Rens, who played their first game on Nov. 3, 1923, became one of the best basketball teams in the country.
Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Black would-be homeowners pay the price when big investors buy up the neighborhood.
People who object to affirmative action were more likely to discriminate against job candidates with Black-sounding names than those who supported it, whether or not they had to rush.
The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.
America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the civility and structure of America.
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
Hip-hop traveled far after being birthed by Black Americans in US cities. The journey hasn’t always been smooth.
Throughout US history, a ‘white backlash’ has worked to keep Black officeholders and their constituents out of power. Atlanta DA Fani Willis is just the latest.
New research points to feelings of failure, hopelessness, loneliness and sadness as some of the potential reasons Black young people are considering or carrying out suicide at unprecedented rates.
A sociologist interviewed dozens of middle-class Black singles about their friendships, freedom and dating lives.
The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. When it comes to violent offenders and the Black community, the system isn’t working, argue criminologists.
A survey of more than 12,000 US voters found that Black Americans are among the most hopeful about the direction of politics – and they are turning that emotion into action at the polls.
In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
While Sanders deftly played the game of Black respectability politics during his short tenure, Jackson State had motives of its own when it hired the former NFL star.
These literary works ask readers to rethink the histories of these half-human sea creatures and their role in society today.
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer of African American Studies, University of Florida
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Senior Director of Inclusive Culture and Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University
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Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Guilford College
