Tag: Racism
Gaming has benefits and perils – parents can help kids by...
Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington
As the pandemic forced many Americans to hunker down at home, the video game industry saw record spending and...
Racial stereotypes drive students of color away from STEM, but many...
Ebony O. McGee, Vanderbilt University
Dominique, a Black electrical engineering doctoral student, found herself in an awkward situation in the lounge of a hotel where...
Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another...
Connie L. Schaffer, University of Nebraska Omaha; Martha Graham Viator, Rowan University, and Meg White, Stockton University
On Nov. 14, 1960, after a long summer...
How baseball’s first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America recently announced that it would remove former Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from...
Microaggressions aren’t just innocent blunders – new research links them with...
Jonathan Kanter, University of Washington
A white man shares publicly that a group of Black Harvard graduates “look like gang members to me” and claims...
Monuments ‘expire’ – but offensive monuments can become powerful history lessons
Alan Marcus, University of Connecticut and Walter Woodward, University of Connecticut
Historical monuments are intended to be timeless, but almost all have an expiration date....
Kamala Harris represents an opportunity for coalition building between Blacks and...
Danielle Casarez Lemi, Southern Methodist University and Melina Juárez Pérez, Western Washington University
Kamala Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother;...
Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in...
Angélica Durán-Martínez, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left...
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