The Number of African American Doctorates Reaches an All-Time High
Recent data from the National Science Foundation reveals that 2,647 African Americans earned doctorates from U.S. universities in 2022. This is the highest number ever recorded. African Americans earned 7.5 percent of all doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens or permanent residents of this country.
Study Finds White Teachers Struggle to Discuss Race With Black Coworkers and Students
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found White public high school teachers feel their personal and professional identities are challenged when having racially-related conversations with Black students and coworkers.
New Study Finds Children of Color in the United States Receive Inferior Health Care
The study compiled data from recent research on children's health care and found many disparities between the quality in care received by children of color compare to White children.
Enrollments Are Up in Higher Education With Black Increases Outpacing Those of Whites
For African Americans, more than 1.6 million students were enrolled as undergraduates in the fall of 2023, up 0.7 percent from the previous year. White enrollments were down by 2 percent from the fall of 2022. Black enrollments in graduate schools also increased, while White enrollments declined.
University Study Uncovers History of Neighborhood Segregation In Kitsap County, Washington
Upon review of historical housing data from thousands of properties throughout Washington State, a team of researchers has complied information regarding racist housing restrictions in place up to the mid-twentieth century.
Study Analyzes Racial Financial Inequality In America By State
A new study from WalletHub has reviewed the racial wealth gaps across the United States by analyzing data for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Pew Research Center Offers a Snapshot of the Black American Population
The Black population of the United States has increased by 32 percent since 2000. This group of Black Americans is diverse, with a growing number and share born outside the U.S. and an increasing number saying they are of two or more races.
Crime and Violence in U.S. Public School Systems
There were 8,200 hate crime incidents at public schools. Only 3.5 percent of all public schools reported hate crimes. Some 4.7 percent of all schools reported "racial or ethnic tensions.' Middle school were - by a large margin - the most likely to report such tensions.
New Online Database Exposes the Horrors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The collection consists of more than 3,000 reproduced copies of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, and scientific articles regarding the 40-year U.S Public Health Service Study that withheld treatment from Black men with syphilis so researchers could track the progression of the disease.
Racial Disparities in Pay Persist in Higher Education
All female administrators except for Asian women continue to receive lower salaries overall than do White men who hold the same position. In contrast, men of color are generally paid salaries greater than those of White men.
Exposure to Lead Among Children Has Declined But a Racial Gap Remains
Lead is a naturally occurring metal that can cause serious health effects if it accumulates in the blood. Young children are particularly vulnerable, as lead can damage their developing brains and contribute to learning or behavioral problems.
How to Generate Public Support for Alleviating Racial Disparities
Racial health disparities violate concerns of moral sacredness and spark injustice beliefs, calling Americans to action, the authors of a recent study explain. When something is sacred, it is treated as morally imperative to protect relative to non-sacred, secular concerns such as economic issues, the authors state.
The Number of Black Americans Who Died After Suffering Injuries at Work Is at...
The number of African American deaths due to injuries suffered on the job had been increasing. In 2015, 495 African Americans died as a result of work-related injuries. In 2022, the figure was 734, an increase of 48.2 percent.
A New Perspective on the Voting Behavior of Educated Young African Americans
Researchers found that young Black voters now prefer to vote only when they feel they can trust elected officials’ commitment to advancing their interest rather than voting to participate. Black students may not vote if there is no candidate they feel strongly about. Instead, they might engage in other forms of civic participation, such as protesting.
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Nation’s Census Tracks
A new study from the U.S. Census Bureau offers data on the diversity of every census tract in the United States. Overall, the diversity index nationwide is 61.1 percent. This means that there was a 61.1 percent chance that two people chosen at random from a particular census tract were from different racial or ethnic groups.
National Academies Call for Greater Federal Efforts to Improve Health Equity
To improve health equity in the United States, the president should create a permanent federal body responsible for improving racial, ethnic, and tribal equity across the federal government, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Study Presents Data on the Benefits of HBCUs for Black Students
The study found that students initially enrolling in HBCUs are 14.6 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor's degree than Black students who enroll at predominantly White institutions. Black students who enrolled at a non-HBCU four-year institution were 24 percentage points less likely to complete a bachelor’s degree within six years than White students overall.
Discriminatory Managers Negatively Impact Output of All Workers
A recent study by Nicholas Heiserman of Oklahoma State University and Brent Simpson of the University of South Carolina finds that when people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true both when managers are biased against them and when they’re biased in their favor.
Diverse Classrooms in College STEM Courses Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students
Students achieve better grades in college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses when those classrooms have higher numbers of underrepresented racial-minority and first-generation college students, according to new research published by the American Educational Research Association.
Study Finds Black Patients Receive Inferior Care After Suffering a Stroke
Black patients are significantly less likely to receive the gold standard of stroke care, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
Black Women Used Social Networks to Help Them Persist in STEM
The new study sought to shed light on how relationships and community support success for Black women as they pursue education in STEM fields.
Blacks Making Steady Progress in Medical School Enrollments
In 2023, there were a record 10,133 African Americans enrolled at U.S. medical schools. They made up 10.4 percent of total enrollments. In 2015, Blacks were 7.2 percent of total enrollments.
Teacher Attrition at K-12 Schools in the United States
While Black teachers at public schools were more likely than their peers to leave the profession, Black teachers at private schools were less likely than their peers to leave the teaching profession.
Columbia University Scholars Develop an Intervention to Combat Unconscious Racial Bias
Certain facial features — like downturned lips and a heavy brow — are known to make someone appear untrustworthy to others. Such facial biases influence our everyday social interactions as well as high-stakes decisions, including who we hire, elect to political office, or find guilty of a crime.
New Study Finds The Stereotype Threat Is Not a Factor for HBCU Students
The authors found no significant difference in the number of questions answered correctly by the subjects in the control and treatment groups - that is, the HBCU students who weren't reminded of their race and those who were reminded performed equally well on the test.
Racial Differences in Cold Sensitivity Are Both a Health and Economic Issue
A new study at the University of Connecticut suggests Black households pay more to keep their homes comfortable, in part due to increased cold sensitivity. Black people who can’t afford those couple extra degrees end up seeking medical attention more often than their White counterparts.
Blacks Are Less Likely Than Whites to Be Referred to Home Health Care After...
According to a new study at the University of Michigan, about 22 percent of Black patients are referred by discharge nurses to home health care compared to 27 percent of White patients.
The Many Challenges Facing Black Students Pursuing STEM Doctorates
The research team at the nonprofit RTI International found that Black STEM Ph.D. recipients are considerably more likely to earn their doctorate from a private for-profit institution and that they also take significantly longer to complete their degree and borrow substantially more for their graduate education.
Study Finds That Large Cities Foster Socioeconomic Segregation
The researchers used GPS data collected in 2017 from 9.6 million cellphones across 382 metropolitan areas in the United States to determine how often people of different socioeconomic statuses crossed paths during the day. They collected data on almost 1.6 billion path-crossings.
Scholars From Sub-Saharan African Nations Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities
There were 2,220 scholars from sub-Saharan African nations teaching at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2021-22 academic year. This was up nearly 50 percent from the prior year at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholars from sub-Saharan African nations made up only 2.4 percent of all foreign scholars teaching in the United States that year.
After a Sharp Drop During the Pandemic, Young Black Students Return to School
In 2020, 40.9 of non-Hispanic Black children ages 3 and 4 were enrolled in school compared to 61.7 percent in 2022. Non-Hispanic Black children ages 3 and 4 were more likely to be enrolled in school in 2022 than similarly aged children in any other major racial or ethnic group.
UCLA Study Finds That There Is a Large Racial Gap in the Urban Wage...
A new study by researchers at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, find that the urban wage wage premium primarily benefits White and male workers, with significantly less positive impacts for Black workers, and possibly none for Latino and female workers.
Same Sex Couples Are Far More Likely to Be Interracial Than Opposite-Sex Couples
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau finds that in 2022, there were about 1.3 million same-sex couple households in the United States. Roughly 740,000 were married and 540,000 unmarried. About 31 percent of married same-sex couples were interracial in 2022, much higher than the 19 percent of married opposite-sex couples that were interracial.
American Students Studying Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the 2021-22 academic year, there were 4,614 American students who studied at universities in sub-Saharan Africa. This is about one tenth of the number of students from sub-Saharan Africa studying at U.S. universities.
U.S. Public Schools Remain Separate and Unequal
Approximately 522,400 students, or 1 percent of overall student enrollment, attended public schools where fewer than half of the teachers met all state certification requirements. Of the students attending those schools, 66 percent were Black and Latino students.
Hospitals That Serve Mostly Black Patients Are Less Likely to Have Core Resources to...
UCLA researchers looked at nearly 4,400 hospitals across the U.S., including 864 with high numbers of Black and Hispanic patients. The team looked at the availability of 34 cancer-related services at these facilities. They found that hospitals serving high numbers of Black patients were significantly less likely to offer all the core services.
