Boston University Study Links Low Level of Education With Obesity Among Black Women
The results showed that women whose parents had not completed high school were more likely to become obese than women who had at least one parent who completed college.
The Higher Education Payoff for Young African Americans
In 2010, young Blacks with a master's degree had average earnings of $49,100. This is 90.6 percent of the average earnings of young Whites with a master's degree.
Kansas State University Study Looks at the Gender Aspect of Racial Profiling
White women stopped by police were the most likely group to be let go with only a warning. Black women were just as likely as White men to be ticketed, arrested, or searched.
The Huge Earnings Benefit for Minority Students Who Major in STEM Fields
The study found that Black and other minority students who major in STEM fields earn at least 25 percent more than their peers who majored in humanities or education.
A College Education Provides Major Economic Benefits for Blacks in California
The report found that lifetime earnings for African Americans with a four-year college degree in California have grown 85 percent, after adjusting for inflation, over the past 30 years.
The Changing Face of Residential Segregation
Three professors of geography have produced a new study showing that while racial diversity in American cities has increased in the past two decades, highly diverse neighborhoods are still very rare.
Study Finds Women’s Magazines Ignore Health Issues of Importance to African Americans
Crystal Lumpkins of the University of Kansas found that the magazines virtually ignored diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS, major health issues in the Black community.
Johns Hopkins University Study Finds Huge Racial Gap in Living Donor Kidney Transplants
One third of all people awaiting kidney transplants in the U.S. are African Americans. But in 2011, only 14 percent of patients receiving new kidneys from living donors were African Americans.
The Myth of Black Economic Progress
All the statistics on income, education, and employment exclude the large number of Americans who are incarcerated in prisons and jails, a population that is disproportionately Black.
A Large Racial Gap Persists in Faculty Posts in American Higher Education
The racial gap is especially pronounced at the full professor level where only 3.4 percent of all posts are held by Blacks.
Survey Finds Declining Percentage of Minority Presidents at Independent Colleges
The Council of Independent Colleges, representing 640 educational institutions, found that the percentage of minority presidents at member institutions dropped from 8 percent in 2006 to 6 percent in 2011.
Stress From Racial Discrimination May Lead to Violent Behavior
A study led by a Washington University faculty member, finds that racial discrimination, more so than other stress, may produce violent behavior among young African Americans.
University Research Finds Behavioral Problems of Multiracial Youth May Be Exaggerated
It has been widely believed that multiracial adolescents have more behavioral problems than African Americans and Whites because they are not accepted as peers by either ethnic group.
Research Finds Black Youth in Public Housing Are More Likely to Take Up Smoking
Research has found that African American youths who live in public housing projects are 2.3 times more likely to take up smoking than other African American adolescents.
University of Chicago Study Finds Counseling Program Reduces Crime Rates of Minority Youth
Teens who participated in the program had a 44 percent reduction in violent crime arrests and a 36 percent reduction in arrest rates for other crimes compared to a control group.
Racial Differences in Mortality Rates for Cohabitating Adults
A new study led by researchers at Michigan State University, finds that in terms of mortality, Blacks do not receive the same benefits from marriage as Whites.
Study Finds Minority K-12 Schools Have a Higher Percentage of Inexperienced Teachers
The data analyzed by researchers at the University of New Hampshire showed that 10.3 percent of all teachers at schools with a high percentage of minority students were beginning teachers.
Rutgers University Study Finds Racial Differences in End-of-Life Planning
The data shows that two thirds of older White adults have a living will compared to just 25 percent of older Blacks.
University of Minnesota Study Finds Growing Racial Diversity in Suburbs
A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found that racially diverse suburbs of major metropolitan areas are growing faster than predominantly White suburbs.
Study Shows Black Teens Less Likely to Be Sexually Active Than 20 Years Ago
The percentage of Black teenagers who have had sex has dropped by 22 percentage points over the past 20 years.
Black Immigrant Students in American Higher Education
Of all Black undergraduate students enrolled in American higher education, 10 percent were immigrants to this country.
Black Economic Mobility in the United States
A new study shows that, particularly for African Americans, there is very little economic mobility.
Black Degree Attainments in Engineering
In 2011, Blacks earned 4.2 percent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering. A decade ago in 2002, Blacks earned 5.4 percent of bachelor’s degrees in engineering.
The Snail-Like Progress of Black Faculty in Engineering
The data shows that in 2011, Blacks were only 2.5 percent of all faculty in engineering positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Study Shows the Importance of Race in Law School Admissions
The authors of the study concluded that "exposure to a diversity of viewpoints prepares the students to be better lawyers, making them more 'culturally competent.'"
Black Students at Less Diverse Campuses Are More Likely to Be Victims of Discrimination
A survey of more that 4,000 minority students on 31 campuses found that race-related incidents are more likely to occur on campuses where minorities make up a small percentage of the student body.
Study Finds Black Students Who Used School Vouchers Are More Likely to Attend College
The results showed that African American students who went to private or parochial schools under the voucher program were 24 percent more likely to enroll in college.
Most African American Males Lose Their HOPE Scholarships Due to a Lack of Academic...
Research by Charles Menifield found that more than 50 percent of African American male students in Tennessee lost their HOPE scholarships due to subpar academic performance.
Scholarly Study Finds Signifcant Racial Bias in Criminal Sentencing
The authors found a mean incarceration rate of 51 percent for Blacks and 38 percent for Whites. But they found a significant racial gap in incarceration rates between judges that increases the racial gap by as much as 18 percentage points.
The Impact of Affirmative Action Bans on the Graduate School Enrollments of Minorities
A study published by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, finds that in states that have banned the consideration of race in graduate school admissions, enrollments of minority students are down 12 percent overall.
Money Is a Major Factor in Why Black Students Drop Out of College
A third of Black men and a quarter of Black women who dropped out of college, did so because of financial concerns.
Georgetown University Study Examines Racial Health Disparity in the Aftermath of Strokes
African Americans who survive an intracranial hemorrhage, a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain, are far more likely to have high blood pressure a year after their stroke than White Americans.
New Study Explores the Impact on Poor Black Women of the High Incarceration Rate...
Beth Richie, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, has written a new book focusing on the impact on women in poverty neighborhoods of high incarceration rates among Black men.
University Study Finds Many Blacks in Alabama Lack Access to Eye Care Practitioners
African Americans in Alabama are twice as likely as Whites to suffer from vision impairment and eye disease, particularly cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy.
Research Finds That Blacks Are Less Likely Than Whites to Receive Special Pacemakers
For patients who experienced chronic heart failure, Blacks are less likely than Whites to be outfitted with a special pacemaker that has been shown to prolong survival rates and ease symptoms.
Study Finds Babies Begin to Classify Faces by Race at an Early Age
Infants as young as three months begin to classify facial images by race and gender and show a preference for those that they see most often in their daily lives.
