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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
