Forty-four percent of Americans feeling somewhat or very pessimistic about whether the country can bring about racial equality, according to Pew Research Center. Only 28% of Americans feel somewhat or ...

In the months after George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, as protests swept the globe and books on racism and white privilege flew from bookstore shelves, hope grew that America might finally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While only 64.1 percent of African Americans were registered to vote in the 2022 midterms, 70.9 percent of White Americans were.

STATEWIDE — WalletHub has ranked every state based on racial equality in education with Indiana coming in around the middle. All 50 states were compared by WalletHub through a few key metrics ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to render the Voting Rights Act obsolete. Louisiana v. Callais was first brought to the court in 2025 by a group of white voters, who argued that a ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day voting and civil rights activists were violently beaten and injured by law ...

Four events in the past 10 days invite reflection on the question of race in 2009. Beyond the fact that there was some level of involvement by the ACLU in each, there were no obvious connections ...

It’s no secret that structural racism in the U.S. has created advantages for some and disadvantages for others, fueling ...

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Journal Editorial Report: Colleges vow to keep race a factor in admissions. Images: AP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly The Supreme Court had one of its finest hours on Thursday as it ...

Americans’ views on racial progress and the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. differ greatly based on party and race, a new poll found. The poll, conducted by Pew Research Center earlier this ...

In “Readers Reflect on Noonan’s Advice for DOGE” (Letters, Feb. 15), Hugh Bethell writes: “Take what Ms. Noonan writes about identity, replace the word ‘gender’ with ‘race’ and you’ll be transported ...