Tag: Race
Oscars 2019: Beyond the stats, why diversity matters
Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
With the Academy Awards approaching, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released its...
How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
Jackie Robinson will be remembered for his courage, athleticism, tenacity and sacrifice on Jan. 31, the centennial of his birth. By confronting...
It’s naive to think college athletes have time for school
Jasmine Harris, Ursinus College
From my first day as a sociology professor at a university with a Division I football and men’s basketball team, education...
Are today’s white kids less racist than their grandparents?
Margaret Hagerman, Mississippi State University
In America’s children, we often see hope for a better future, especially when it comes to reducing racism.
Each new generation...
Could Andrew Gillum be the next governor of Florida?
Sharon Austin, University of Florida
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum electrified Democrats with his surprising victory in the Florida’s Democratic primary – but will he go...
Black and biracial Americans wouldn’t need to code-switch if we lived...
Chandra D.L. Waring, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Boots Riley’s new film “Sorry to Bother You” does anything but apologize.
In telling the story of Cassius, a...
Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes,...
Laura Frizzell, The Ohio State University; Sadé L. Lindsay, The Ohio State University, and Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University
On Jan. 24, 2014, police...
‘Traveling while black’ guidebooks may be out of print, but still...
Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College
In the summer of 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for the state of Missouri.
Modeled after the international advisories...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
