Darnella Frazier changed the course of history by tapping record on her smartphone. We can learn a lot from her about...
Social-Race Issues Articles
College isn’t the solution for the racial wealth gap. It’s part of the problem.
Je’lon Alexander is a Morehouse Man who graduated in 2018. He has roughly $55,000 in debt, even after a $15,000 annual...
100 Must-Know Statistics About Race, Income, and Wealth
Income and wealth disparities along racial lines have repercussions for all aspects of life in the U.S.: education,...
Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys
Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood...
The Working Class Can’t Afford the American Dream
The national conversation in the U.S. is focused squarely on improving the lives of people in the working class. The debate revolves around...
16 Most Segregated Cities in America – 24/7 Wall St.
Next year will mark the 50-year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act. Our nation’s capital and, for many...
How Mass Incarceration Contributes to the Achievement Gap
A new study shows that disproportionate imprisonment rates faced by people of color exacerbate race-based inequalities in educational attainment....
Why black workers who do everything right still get left behind
We’ve known for a while that black Americans aren’t making economic progress. A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning...
“The Cloak I Was Offering Them Was Identification With My Whiteness”
As a white mother of two black children, three white children, who all have a white father, I have something to say. Racism exists. It is...
Black America Is Leaving While Staying Put
Jimmie Williams joins demonstrators in a protest outside of City Hall calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign on December 11, 2015 in Chicago,...
What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Was Really About
Abigail Fisher and Edward Blum walk outside the Supreme Court in 2012 (Susan Walsh/AP Photo) The Supreme Court has upheld the University of Texas’s...
Who gets divorced in America, in 7 charts – The Washington Post
The groups that are most likely to get divorced in America There’s this persistent myth in America that about half of all marriages end in divorce....