Research & Studies

Brown University Study Finds Racial Disparity in Flu Shots for Nursing Home Patients

Black patients were more likely than white patients to refuse vaccinations.

Where African Americans With Scientific Doctorates Find Work

Blacks with scientific doctorates are more likely than similarly educated whites to work in academia while whites are more likely than blacks to work in the corporate world.

Retention, Not Recruitment, Is the Major Problem in Efforts to Have More Minority Teachers

Black and other minority teachers are more likely to leave the profession than other teachers.

Measuring the Educational Impact of Living in a High Poverty Area

Growing up in a low-income neighborhood has a devastating impact of the life prospects of young blacks.

The Racial Component of School Security Measures

Metal detectors are found in schools with large percentages of minority students and not necessarily in schools with high crime rates.

Temple University Scientist Seeks to Explain Why Blacks Are More Likely to Suffer From Hypertension

Research finds that a difference in the way cells in African Americans respond to inflammation may explain the greater incidence of hypertension in the black population.

Black Community College Students Perform Better Academically When They Have Black Instructors

The study examined the academic performance of 30,000 community college students.

Study Finds That Perceptions of Race Can Be Altered by Cues of Social Status

In determining the race of a person in an image, participants were influenced by the subject's attire.

Study Finds That the Civil Rights Era Is Ignored in Public School History Classes

A study by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds that 35 states receive a grade of F in teaching students about the civil rights movement.

Unique Archive of Black History Now Available for Researchers

Duke and North Carolina Central universities have archived more than a century of documents from the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Northwestern University Study Finds Vitamin D Deficiency in Black Men

African American men are 3.5 times as likely as white men to have vitamin D deficiency.

University Study Indicates a Lessening of Residential Racial Segregation

Study finds a decline in residential segregation in all 394 U.S. metro areas.

5,000 Issues of Black Newspaper Made Available Online by Library at IUPUI

Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis provides online access to 5,000 issues of Indianapolis' black newspaper.

Study Shows Only 15 Percent of African-American SAT Test Takers Are Well Prepared for College

According to The College Board, whites are more than three times as likely as blacks to be ready for the academic rigors of college.

Study Suggests Umpires Are Biased Against Black Pitchers

Black pitchers compensate by throwing more pitches in the middle of the strike zone, pitches that are easier for batters to hit.

Dispelling the Myth That Financial Aid Disproportionately Goes to Blacks

Non-Hispanic whites receive nearly three-fifths of all financial aid grants.

Study Finds Social Stigmatization Impacts Academic Performance of Young Minority Students

Survey finds that many minority children in the United States feel socially stigmatized in grade school and the resulting anxiety effects their academic performance.

The Gender Gap in African-American Graduate School Enrollments

The Council of Graduate Schools has released new data on enrollments for the 2010-11 academic year. That year, there were 1,476,674 American citizens or...

A New Database on Oral History Collections of the Civil Rights Movement

A new online database with information on 1,000 oral history collections in libraries, museums, and university archives across the nation.

Emory University Study Examines Racial Disparity in Kidney Disease

Kidney failure is four times as likely among African Americans than for whites and greater amounts of protein in urine may be a contributing factor.
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