Can Music Play a Role in Racial Prejudice?
Research conducted at Ohio State University shows that particular types of music can influence behavior even though the lyrics do not contain references to race or ethnicity.
UConn Scientist on the Cutting Edge of Research on Regenerating Human Tissues
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin's work on tissue regeneration is called one of the "100 scientific discoveries that changed the world."
Benefits of Preschool Are More Likely to Accrue to Children of Lower-Income Homes
A study conducted by a psychologist at the University of Texas finds that the preschool experience can greatly reduce academic achievement gaps between white and nonwhite children and children from rich and poor families.
University Study Finds That Bottling Up Emotions Can Lead to Depression Among Black Men
A new study by Wizdom Powell Hammond of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, finds that Black men who hold back their emotions when confronted with racial discrimination are more likely to become depressed.
Study Finds Smoking Rates Are Impacted by the Perception of Racial Discrimination
Jason W. Purnell, of Washington University in St. Louis, was the lead author of a study on the impact of racial discrimination on cigarette smoking behavior.
How Race Impacts the Healthcare Debate
A new study shows that White Americans have different levels of support of healthcare reform depending on the race of the person they believed offered the proposal.
A Check-Up of Blacks in U.S. Medical Schools
Over the first decade of the 21st century, the Black percentage of all U.S. medical school graduates has declined.
Black and Minority Students Are Being Squeezed Out of Community Colleges
A new report states, "Hundreds of thousands of prospective students are knocking on the doors of community colleges and are being denied access because the colleges have insufficient capacity to serve them."
Study Finds Students’ Attitudes on Race Change for the Worse During Their College Years
A survey finds that students are less concerned about promoting racial understanding when they are seniors than when they were freshmen.
Princeton University Study Examines Link Between Socioeconomic Factors and Life Expectancy
Author Michael Geruso concludes that 80 percent of the life expectancy gap between Black men and White men is due to socioeconomic differences.
University of Michigan Study Finds Racial Disparity in Prescriptions for Antidepressants
For patients with a major depressive disorder, Whites were 1.52 times as likely as Blacks to be prescribed antidepressant drugs.
Duke University Study Finds Racial Disparity in Convictions by All-White Juries
When the jury pool was all White, Black defendants were convicted 81 percent of the time. When the defendant was White, the conviction rate was 66 percent.
Study Finds Dropout Rates for Black Students Are Higher at Charter Schools
Black students at charter schools in Austin, Dallas, and Houston had a dropout rate of 13 percent compared to a drop out rate of 4 percent for Black students in urban public schools.
Is the National African American Spelling Bee a Good Idea?
A new event offers many young African American students the opportunity to compete on a national level in spelling competitions.
Study Finds HBCU Faculty Are More Supportive of Students Than Faculty at Other Schools
Faculty members at historically Black colleges and universities are more likely than their peers at predominately White institutions to engage in "educationally purposeful" activities both in and outside the classroom.
Schott Foundation Report Finds Vast Racial Inequities in New York City Public Schools
Black students are four times as likely as Asian or White students to be enrolled in the poorest performing schools.
North Carolina State University Study Finds Racism in the Level of Restaurant Service
The results showed that 38.5 percent of all servers admitted to providing a lower level of service to African American customers at least some of the time.
Are Teachers Lavishing Black Students With Too Much Praise?
A Rutgers University study finds that White teachers provided more praise and less criticism if they thought that the student who wrote a poorly written essay was Black or Hispanic.
Study Finds a Narrowing of the Digital Divide
While broadband access to the Internet among Blacks has increased, much of the gain appears to be from an increased use of smartphones by African Americans.
University of Michigan Study Finds Racial Disparity in Adherence to HIV Drug Therapy
The study of patients receiving antiretroviral drug therapy found that only 30 percent of African American patients maintained the optimal adherence to their prescribed schedule.
UMass Study Examines How Infants Perceive People Who Look Different
The study showed that infants are better at recognizing facial and emotional expressions of people within groups they interact with the most.
Penn Study Finds Racial Disparities in Assistance for Heart Attack Victims
African Americans who have heart attacks are less likely to receive CPR from bystanders than Whites who have heart attacks.
Duke University Economist Finds Blacks Pay a Premium in Housing Market
When all other variables are the same, African Americans on average pay $6,000 more than Whites for a $200,000 house.
Stanford University Research Finds Racial Bias in Whites’ Views on Juvenile Sentencing
The study found that participants who had been told the offender in a violent crime was Black were more likely than other participants to support life in prison without parole for convicted juveniles.
Study Finds Women and Minority Doctoral Candidates May Face Faculty Discrimination
Prospective doctoral students with Caucasian sounding male names were 26 percent more likely to be granted an interview than candidates with names that indicated they were minorities or women.
Study Finds Black Children Have High Levels of Flame Retardant Chemicals in Their Systems
Some of the flame retardant chemicals have been banned but they remain in older furniture that is more likely to be owned by low-income and minority families.
Comparing the Educational Attainment of Foreign-Born and Native-Born Blacks in the U.S.
Some 73 percent of fathers and 53 percent of mothers in Nigerian immigrant families have completed college.
University Study Finds That Families Who Move Tend to Self-Segregate by Race
Study conducted by sociologists at the University of Washington finds that Black and Whites who move tend to end up in neighborhoods with predominantly Black or White residents.
Racial Bias Found in the Assignment of the Writing of Majority Opinions in State...
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
University Study Finds That Exercise Alone Does Little to Prevent Obesity Among Black Girls
Official U.S. government data finds that 39 percent of adult African American women are obese. But new research finds that exercise alone may not be adequate to reduce rates of obesity.
Television Viewing Can Negatively Impact the Self-Esteem of Young African Americans
The results found that for Black and White girls and young Black males, their self esteem was lower the more they watched television. But for White males who watched a lot of television, their self-esteem increased.
Wayne State University Study Finds Heart Disease in 90 Percent of Black Hypertension Patients
For patients who visited an emergency room for non-heart-related reasons, 90 percent of those with hypertension also had heart disease.
University of Cincinnati Scholar Examines If Clergy Can Help Fight Depression in the Black...
Research has shown that African Americans are less likely than Whites to acknowledge that they are depressed and are less likely to seek treatment.
University Study Finds That Many Black Women Are Uninformed About Heart Disease
Black and Hispanic women were 66 percent less likely than White women to be aware that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women.
Harvard Study Finds Lower Education, Not Genetics, Explains Higher Rates of Hypertension Among Blacks
The study showed that blood pressure was significantly lower for Black Americans who had four years of additional education.
Texas Study Finds Race of Teacher Has Little Impact on Black Student Performance
The study examined the academic performance of students at 198 public schools in low-income neighborhoods in the state of Texas.
