The Large Racial Gap in High School Graduation Rates Is Slowly Eroding
The Black student high school graduation rate in 2013-14 was 72.5 percent. The good news is that since the 2010-11 academic year the Black-White gap in high school graduation rates has declined from 17 percentage points to 14.8 percentage points.
Study Finds a Huge Diversity Shortfall in Biomedical Research
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco find that there has been little change in the number of clinical research studies that include subjects from underrepresented minority groups or in the race of scientists being funded with federal research grants.
Emory University Study Finds a Racial Disparity in Development of Alzheimer’s Disease
The data showed that after adjusting for age, gender, and education, African Americans are 64 percent more likely than Whites to have Alzheimer's disease. The study found that 8.6 percent of African Americans develop Alzheimer's disease compared to just 5.5. percent of Whites.
The Racial Gap in High School Graduation Rates in the 50 States
The highest Black student high school graduation rate in 2014 was in Texas. The state with the lowest high school graduation rate for Blacks is Nevada. The racial gap in high school graduation rates is 20 percentage points or more in California, New York, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Academic Disciplines Where African Americans Earned No Doctoral Degrees in 2014
There are 16 academic disciplines where African Americans earned no doctoral degrees in 2014. The good news is that the number of academic fields where there have been no Black doctoral awards is growing smaller.
University Study Documents Gun Violence Injuries for African American Youth
Over a five-year period, 398 children under the age of 16 were brought to emergency rooms in St. Louis with gun-related injuries. Almost 78 percent of these victims were African Americans.
Study Warns of a Mental Health Crisis for African American College Students
Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Illinois at Chicago warn that Black students who are enrolled at selective predominantly White educational institutions face a physical and mental wear-and-tear that contributes to a host of psychological and physical ailments.
Study Finds Academic Coaching Helps Retain Minority Students in Ph.D. Programs
The Academy for Future Science Faculty consists of individual and group-based professional development activities, discussions with fellow students, and highly skilled mentors serving as coaches, many of them minorities themselves, trained in diversity issues.
Is Racism the Main Factor in Opposition to Paying College Athletes?
Researchers found that most African Americans favor paying college athletes while most White Americans oppose it. Whites with more negative opinions of Blacks were less likely to approve of paying college athletes.
Racism Is the Norm in Media Accounts of Celebrity Domestic Violence
A new study by Joanna Pepin, a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Maryland, finds that when a Black man was accused of domestic violence, media reports were more likely to include criminal information than when a White man was accused of domestic violence.
Racial Differences in Parenting Behavior and Concerns
Among the findings of a new Pew Research Center survey is that three quarters of all Black parents said a parent can never be too involved in their children's education. Only 47 percent of White parents agreed.
Racial Differences in Persistence Rates in U.S. Higher Education
More than 40 percent of all African Americans who enrolled in higher education in the 2011-12 academic year were no longer enrolled in higher education in 2014 and had not earned a degree or certificate of any kind. For Whites, 27.7 percent were no longer enrolled.
Academic Study Shows How Racial Bias May Impact End of Life Care
The researchers conducted an experiment with emergency room physicians and put them in simulations where they had to interact with actors who were portraying patients who were dying and their family members.
The Racial Gap in the Selection of Students for Gifted Education Programs
A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that Black elementary school students are about half as likely as their White peers with similar standardized test scores to be assigned to gifted education classes. But when the gifted education teacher is Black, the racial gap disappears.
Study Finds Racial Gap in Salaries of Business School Graduates
The data showed that Black and White graduates of business schools earned similar salaries in their first jobs after graduating from business school. But six to eight years after leaving business schools a significant racial gap had opened up.
Ethnic Studies Courses in High School Can Lead to Academic Success for Minority Students
A new study by researchers at Stanford University found that minority students who took an ethnic studies course in high school had higher attendance rates and greater academic success than minority students who did not take such classes.
Stanford Political Scientist Examines Gender Differences in Multiracial Identity
A new study authored by Lauren D. Davenport, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University in California, finds that women who are children of interracial couples are more likely to identify themselves as biracial than men who are children of interracial couples.
What Happened to Black Neighborhoods After the Great Recession?
A new study by researchers at American University and Brigham Young University examines what happened in three predominantly Black neighborhoods: Bronzeville in Chicago, Harlem in New York, and the Shaw/U Street neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
Two Academic Studies Show That Polluters Target Minority Communities
The studies found that companies tended to follow the path of least resistance when locating plants that produced hazardous wastes. And this is particularly true to the super polluters who produce the most toxins.
African American College Students Tend to Concentrate in Majors That Lead to Low Pay
According to a Georgetown University study, African Americans who complete college are more likely to major in subject areas that lead to low-paying jobs. There are small percentages of Black students who graduate with degrees in disciplines that lead to high-paying jobs.
Researchers Call for an End to the Use of Genetic Concepts of Race in...
A group of scholars from the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University in Philadelphia, and the American Museum of Natural History write that the concept of race in biological research "is problematic at best and harmful at worst."
Study Finds Racial Disparity in Risk of Dementia
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente found that 38 percent of the Black population will likely develop dementia within 25 years after turning 65 years old.
The Racial Gap in Women’s Ability to Pay Off Their Student Loans
For women who graduated from college in the 2007-08 academic year, Black women were able to pay off only 9 percent of their student loan debt by 2012. In contrast White women had paid off 37 percent of their student loan debt by 2012.
New Study Finds Wide Racial Disparities in Access to Government Child Care Programs
A new report from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) in Washington, D.C., finds that only 46 percent of eligible Black children participated in the Head Start preschool program. Nationwide, 21 percent of Black children eligible to be given government funded child care, actually are covered.
The Escalating Debt Problem for African American College Students
An analysis of the student debt load for fourth-year undergraduate students found that in 1990, 69 percent of African American college students had accumulated debt. By 2012, the figure was 90 percent.
The Racial Gap in the Perceived Value of Higher Education
A survey by the Pew Research Center finds that 62 percent of Black parents and only 34 percent of White parents believe getting a college degree is extremely import for success in life.
University of Southern California Study Shows Extent of Black Invisibility in Entertainment
The report examines 109 major films and 305 television programs in 2014 that included more than 11,000 speaking characters. Some 22 percent of all these films or TV shows had no African American characters.
A Statistical Portrait of First-Year Students at Black Colleges and Universities
This nationwide survey prepared by UCLA compares current first-year students in terms of characteristics such as family income, grades in high school, future goals, study habits, political views, and social activities.
University Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Mortgage Loan Originators
The results showed that some mortgage loan originators did not response to people with African American sounding names, others rejected applications outright, and others delayed their responses so that the potential borrower was apt to take their business elsewhere.
The Residential Resegregation of Major Urban Areas in the United States
A new study examines how neighborhoods in four large metropolitan area has changed since housing discrimination was outlawed during the civil rights era. The results show that more than a third of all neighborhoods have experienced "steady resegregation."
Survey Examines How College Presidents Are Dealing With the Racial Climate on Their Campuses
Nearly one half of all presidents at four-year colleges and universities who responded anonymously to the survey reported that there had been organized protests or events on diversity and inclusion at their campus.
UCLA Study Finds Huge Racial Wealth Gap in Los Angeles
The report finds that the typical African American household in Los Angeles has on average only about 1 percent of the average wealth of non-Hispanic White households. Many Asian American groups had an even higher average net worth than White households.
Academic Study Finds Racial Differences in Smoking Behavior
African American are less likely than Whites to begin smoking in their teen years when most people who smoke start their habits. But, Blacks are less likely than Whites to quit smoking once they get older.
At All Levels of Wealth, Blacks Are More Likely Than Whites to Spend Time...
As expected, wealthier people of all races were less likely to be incarcerated than members of their racial group with lower levels of wealth. But at all levels of wealth, Blacks were more likely than Whites to spend time in jail.
Study Shows “Resumé Whitening” Increases Chance of Employers Contacting Job Applicants
A new study by researchers at the University of Toronto and Stanford University found that nearly one third of African American job applicants used the practice of "resumé whitening" to hide, at least to some degree, their ethnic identities.
Northwestern Study Finds Racial Differences in Substance Abuse Among Delinquent Teenagers
The study found that contrary to common societal stereotypes, African Americans were far less likely that Whites or Hispanics to develop substance abuse disorders relating cocaine, opiates, amphetamines, and sedatives.
