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 ...

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, ...

“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 a separate survey, we asked Americans if parents should be able to opt their children out of learning about certain topics in school if the way they’re taught conflicts with the parents’ personal ...

“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 ...

Health disparities across racial and ethnic groups persist in Canada. But how the country can effectively address them hinges upon how it can better study these differences. In a recent paper I ...

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 Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics hosted Janeria Easley, assistant professor of African American studies at Emory University, at the Institute for Social Research Tuesday morning. As part of ...