Mapping daily temperature variations across the US revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.
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The COVID-19 pandemic showed that a one-size-fits-all approach is inadequate for addressing health inequities. A targeted, community-informed strategy is essential to improve public health responses.
The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
Why are Republicans talking about Kamala Harris’ laugh? It’s the latest stage in a long history of marginalizing Black women.
Misogyny has made it difficult for all women to gain entry into politics, let alone Black women, who face the additional obstacle of abject racism. Will Kamala Harris finally break those barriers?
An assassin’s bullet couldn’t knock George Wallace out of politics − but it made him seek redemption.
Montgomery once closed all of its parks rather than desegregate them. Today, the city’s long history of racial inequality is still reflected in the state of its parks and green spaces.
David Seymour’s expectation that drug-buying policy be based on need rather than ethnicity misses the point: the Treaty of Waitangi is already about equality, and can help guide good decisions.
In a major homelessness ruling, the Supreme Court holds that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when they have nowhere else to go.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
These endeavors end up turning the complexity of Black life into a stunt.
Human bondage was big business in the antebellum US, and men weren’t the only ones cashing in.
The singer’s home reflects the rags-to-riches trajectory that epitomizes the American Dream. Yet Presley and his estate were seen as not quite refined enough to reflect true upward mobility.
Research has shown that anti-gun violence programs have more success when they address root causes such as generational poverty, easy access to guns and a lack of affordable housing.
Detroit is one of the country’s most segregated regions, but census data shows how that’s changing in both the city and suburbs.
Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
Legal precedents hold that criminalizing someone for their status, such as being homeless, is cruel and unusual punishment. But what if that status leads to actions like sleeping in public spaces?
Since the ‘trial of the century,’ the lines between news and entertainment have become increasingly blurred.
Diversity, equity and inclusion are good for the bottom line.
A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity.
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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