The Black Lives Matter Movement

Racism and overstressed teachers help explain high expulsion rates for Black preschool boys

Medical influencer Joel Bervell is challenging racism in health care, one TikTok at a time.

STEM professionals must stand against the white supremacy and scientific racism that fuels arguments against affirmative action

New laws make it harder for teachers to discuss racism and inequality, but psychological evidence shows these conversations dispel causes of bias and distress

Survey finds that most people think poverty is why pollution disproportionately affects Black people, despite evidence that racism is the major cause

Lack of data explains why

The innovators changed the nature of household work, industrial production and high technology

Lessons about racial injustice help students understand reality

Excessive adversity activates biological reactions that can lead to lifelong problems in physical and mental well-being

Sociologist Anthony Ryan Hatch believeswe must make the conversation around race and STEM a priority in academia

Tuskegee Institute researchers showed Jonas Salk’s vaccine protected children by developing a key test

For structural engineer and entrepreneur Nehemiah Mabry, a racist remark made to him in graduate school provided all the motivation he needed to open doors into academia for others

Celeste Warren of drug manufacturer Merck discusses diversity in science and medicine and the journey of rising up in the ranks of a major multinational company

It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccines actively prevent disease

The everyday slights, insults and offensive behaviors that people of marginalized groups experience in daily interactions cause real psychological harm

Substance use disorders and other problems cannot be addressed from a position of willful ignorance about our society’s inequalities

Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”

The New York Times columnist discusses police brutality, racial disparities of the pandemic and diversifying the workplace 

The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies

A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements

Antonio Baines is trying to build a more diverse science, one student at a time

A new study of the city’s policing also shows differences between male and female cops

Protest expert Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed

The aftermath of the Springfield, Ill., rampage led, in part, to the NAACP