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Mending ‘crowns’: How a Dallas hair stylist is fostering hope for Black women with alopecia

Pexels/Godisable Jacob photo   by MERDIE NZANGA, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reporting Fellow, The 19th Bridget Alem, a hair stylist in Dallas, is creating a safe space for...

PROPERTY IS POWER! Exploring the low Black homeownership gap

Adobe Stock Photo by Anthony O. Kellum Homeownership is often hailed as the quintessential American dream, a symbol of financial stability, and a means to accumulate...

From America to Africa: Hip-Hop in the Motherland 50 years later

BRAIN, AN ARTIST WITH STONE TOWN RECORDS; ZENJI BOI, OWNER OF STONE TOWN RECORDS;  A STONE TOWN RECORDS CUSTOMER. (PHOTO BY LAMONT JONES JR.) by...

Racism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased disease risk in Black populations

by Negar Fani, Emory University and Nathaniel Harnett, Harvard Medical School The U.S. is in the midst of a racial reckoning. The COVID-19 pandemic,...

This course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings

by Rob Wells, University of Maryland Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Lynching and the...

A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain

The New York Rens played from 1923 to 1948. Black History Heroes/Twitter by Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder For the first time in 20 years,...

I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors

by Brian Y. An, Georgia Institute of Technology In the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been...

The path to vaccine equity? Address 3 fears, study suggests.

As of August 2022, COVID-19 vaccination rates in Black and Hispanic people exceeded those of white Americans nationally, but only for the initial shots. FatCamera/E+...

Guest Editorial: Sabotaging reparations

A serious discussion of reparations for Black Americans has been flirted with on and off for the past few years. Dollar amounts have been...

Biases against Black-sounding first names can lead to discrimination in hiring, especially when employers make decisions in a hurry − new research

What role will race play in determining who gets the job? Cecilie_Arcurs/E+ via Getty Image by Martin Abel, Bowdoin College Because names are among the first things...

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