Research & Studies

Census Bureau Offers New Data on Population and Age for African Americans

The statistics show that between 2010 and 2018, the median age of the U.S. population increased by one year from 37.2 to 38.2. The median age of African Americans increased by 1.4 years, a larger increase than for the population as a whole.

HBCUs Exceed Expectations When it Comes to Black Enrollment and Graduation Rates

For an example, in Florida, HBCUs represent just 4 percent of the state's four-year college and universities, but enroll 9 percent of all Black undergraduates and award 18 percent of bachelor's degrees to Black graduates.

Report Reveals Underrepresentation of Students from Minority Serving Institutions in Study Abroad

The report offers insight into the challenges facing students who want to study abroad including barriers of cost, culture, and curriculum.

Level of Education Impacts How Often People Discuss Racial Issues

College-educated Blacks and Whites are more likely to discuss relations than their less-educated peers. But for college-educated adults, Blacks are more likely than Whites to say they talk at least sometimes about race relations by a margin of 79 percent to 59 percent.

Nationwide Study Finds Major Racial Gap in School Suspensions and Expulsions

The study offers a comprehensive look at racial disparities in school discipline involving expulsion or suspension from school at secondary educational institutions throughout the United States. The study examined disciplinary records involving nearly 16,000 middle schools and more than 18,000 high schools all across the country.

Academic Study Finds Companies Target African Americans With Ads for Unhealthy Foods

The study led by scholars at the University of Connecticut found that unhealthy food advertising targeting Black audiences increased by more than 50 percent between 2013 and 2017. Overall television food advertising declined by 4 percent during the period.

U.S. Census Bureau Releases Its First-Ever Report on Male Fertility

Some of the datat on male fertility is broken down by race. For example, for men between the ages of 40 and 50, 26.8 percent of Whites had never had a child, compared to 19.5 percent of Blacks. In this same age group, 15.3 percent of White men had never been married, compared to 31.4 percent of Black men.

Study Finds Black Students in Charter Schools Are More Likely to Have a Black Teacher

The issue of charter schools has become a hot topic in the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nominating process. Previous studies that show students of color perform better academically when they have a teacher of the same race or ethnic group. A new report says this is more likely to occur in charter schools.

Faculty From Underrepresented Groups Bear the Brunt of the Work on Diversity Initiatives

The research, led by scholars from Colorado State University, found that non-White faculty recruited minority faculty, engaged in outreach to diverse K-12 schools and served on diversity committees more frequently than non-Hispanic White faculty.

Oklahoma State Scholar Says Artificial Intelligence Can Eliminate Bias in the Hiring Process

The research finds that using machine decision-making through artificial intelligence (AI) can remove unconscious bias and “noise” from the hiring and promotion process and begin making the workplace reflect a diverse society.

Report Finds Severe Racial Disparity in Student Loan Debt

A new report from Demos, a nonprofit progressive research and advocacy organization based in New York, found that om average Black women borrowers see their student loan balances grow by an additional 13 percent in the 12 years after they began college and over half of Black male borrowers default on their loans in the same period.

Study Finds Significant Racial Bias in Hiring Biology and Physics Faculty

The results showed that the physics professors rated Asian and White candidates as more competent and hireable than Black candidates. In biology, similar racial disparities were seen.

Study Finds Black Principals Increase the Hiring and Retention Rates of Black Teachers

Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville found that Black principals have more success in hiring diverse faculty because they have access to different networks to find diverse teachers and are able to attract qualified Black teachers who prefer to work for Black principals.

Study Finds Blacks With a College Education Are More Likely to Experience Racial Discrimination

The survey found that the majority of all African American respondents reported experiencing discrimination at some point in their life. However, this exposure to discrimination was more pronounced among African Americans with at least some college experience

One-Time Diversity Training Programs Are Ineffective in Changing Behavior, Study Finds

The researchers found that although the after-training survey results were positive, the participants behavior in the following months did not change very much, particularly among men and White people. Additionally, very few senior level executives were willing to participate in the training.

Study Finds Historically Redlined Communities Have Higher Rates of Asthma

The results found that residents of redlined neighborhoods visited the emergency room for asthma-related complaints 2.4 times more often than residents of green neighborhoods. Measures of diesel particulate matter in the air also averaged nearly twice as high in redlined neighborhoods compared to green neighborhoods.

Large Increases in Black Undergraduate Enrollment But Not at the Most Selective Institutions

Black student enrollment has increased from 10 percent to 13 percent at public four-year institutions, from 13 percent to 14 percent at private, nonprofit four-year institutions, from 13 percent to 15 percent at public two-year institutions, and from 21 percent to 28 percent at private for-profit schools.

Increases in Government Contracting Lead to Lower African American Employment Opportunities

According to a new study from the University of Georgia, when governments contract work out to private companies, it leads to decreases in workforce diversity, most noticeably in African American and women participation in top-level positions.

Study Finds Hairstyles Historically Associated With Black Women Are Perceived as Less Professional

According to a new study by Dove's CROWN Coalition (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair), Black women report being 30 percent...

65 Years After Brown: America’s Public Schools Remain Racially Segregated

According to a new report from The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, White students, on average, attend a school in which 69 percent of students are White. Black students, who account for 15 percent of enrollment, as they did in 1970, attend schools that on average have Black enrollments of 47 percent.
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