PORTLAND, Ore. — The death of George Floyd has forced many white Americans to reflect on what racism looks like in our country. Most of us have been taught about racism through a narrow lens, whether ...
New research links discrimination, chronic stress, and inflammation to higher mortality rates among Black Americans. For ...
*Have you ever heard the expression, “When the White community catches a cold, the Black community gets pneumonia?” It’s commonly said and repeated in the Black communities and is no exaggeration. The ...
In this video, I respond to a comment claiming racism only benefits Black people. I explain why I refuse to compare communities’ pain, and how the model minority myth was designed to pit Asians ...
Denizens of the nation’s colleges and universities take perverse pride in proclaiming that America – including higher education – embodies systemic racism. More insidious than mere racism – ...
We don’t often think of racism impacting people’s health. But Dr. Amber Johnson has made a career of studying how the two issues are intertwined. “We’re in Los Angeles at this moment. Black women are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in ...
(CNN) — Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he could not ...