Race

Purcell Conway, a civil rights activist from St. Augustine, Florida, talks about the watershed moments that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and why it’s still not the end of the fight for racial equity in the United States.

Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.

Dr. Albert Gaskins, a doctor and desegregationist, speaks about his record as a civil rights activist as a young man and young professionals to open doors for other Black Americans.

Marie L. Greenwood, the first tenured Black teacher in the Denver public school system so revered that she had an elementary school named after her, recalls how she fought to open the gates for more Black teachers in a system that didn’t have faith in them.

Dr. Edward S. Cooper, the first Black President of the American Heart Association and Martin Luther King Jr.’s physician, has spent his life sealing the health gap for Black Americans.

Rev. William B. Moore talks about how Black student of the time used civil disobedience to gain small victories during the Civil Rights Movement, and how participating as a sit-in protester shaped the rest of his life as an activist.

Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, a native of segregated Little Rock, Arkansas, recalls her experience as the first Black student attempting to desegregate Forest Heights Junior High School.

Elaine Brown is accustomed to breaking new ground — and overcoming adversity is a challenge she’d conquered long before she made history in the 1970s as the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.

UCLA Assistant Professor of Sociology S. Michael Gaddis dishes on new study that reveals Millennials may not be as racially progressive as previously believed.

As COVID-19 vaccines start getting into American arms, a new issue for employers, students, and others is about to come up. How do you prove you got the vaccine?

As COVID-19 vaccines start getting into American arms, a new issue for employers, students, and others is about to come up. How do you prove you got the vaccine? Scott Budman reports.

While some data shows that millennials may be the least racially biased group in the nation, they still show “strong racial bias and anti-Blackness” when looking for roommates, a UCLA study released today suggests.

President Donald Trump and Democratic Nominee for President Joe Biden debate race issues in the United States and the role of law enforcement at the first Presidential Debate in Cleveland, Oh.

A George Washington University professor who apologized in an essay last week for assuming “identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim” resigned, the university said.

A George Washington University professor apologized in an essay Thursday for assuming “identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.”  Jessica Krug, a historian with a specialty in Africa and imperialism, said she had identified as North African, Black and Caribbean “when I had absolutely no right to do so — when doing so is the very…

The next time the soft serve truck rolls around your block, don’t be surprised if kids start singing “ice cream rules everything around me.” That’s because Wu-Tang founder and producer RZA has teamed up with Good Humour to create a new jingle for trucks across the country. It’ll replace the most commonly heard jingle, “Turkey in the Straw,” a...

Netflix dating series “Indian Matchmaking” sheds light on the realities of arranged marriages and has led to a slew of tweets, including those from Dr. Mythri Jegathesan, a Professor at Santa Clara University, who is questioning the editing of the reality show and says it lacks representation of South Asian Americans.

Sindy Marisol Benavides is a Honduran American immigrant and public servant working to bring the American dream to other Latinos, women, and immigrants. She is the chief executive officer of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the country, founded in 1929. Benavides serves on numerous civic boards, is the former vice…

The Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler is the 52nd pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia and is a native of Oakland, California. Mother Bethel has the distinction of being the birthplace of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination and founded by Bishop Richard Allen in 1794. The land that the bishop purchased for the church in 1791 is…

John C. Yang is the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. He focuses his efforts on public policy, education, litigation and advocacy to elevate issues germane to Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and other minority communities. Yang is an attorney with two-plus decades of corporate expertise in policy and litigation. He is a former senior adviser…