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African-Americans over-represented among low-paying college
February 17, 2016By Kenya Downs More African-Americans are going to college than ever before. But according to new research from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, African-American college students are more likely to pursue...
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty
February 15, 2016by Lyndsey Layton For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. The...
More white Americans acknowledge racism as a national problem
February 11, 2016by Errin Haines Whack, Associated Press (Read more...
Infrastructure Failures, Like Flint, Are a Crisis for Black America
February 9, 2016By Charles D. Ellison It’s easy to view the bubbling toxic-water crisis in Flint, Mich., as the case of yet another majority-black city victimized by institutional neglect. Michigan itself is a cautionary tale of once-thriving Northern...
Foundation Launches Groundbreaking Effort to Achieve Racial Equality
February 1, 2016Racial tensions between communities of color and police, and other high-profile, racially charged events in recent years have changed Americans' views on racial progress, according to a new analysis of polls on racial views. A significant change...
Former dean questions costs of ‘no excuses’ charter schools on students of color
January 29, 2016“No excuses” charter schools have become a prominent feature of modern school reform. What exactly are they? This is how Joan Goodman, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the...
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)
January 28, 2016BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched its next step in pursuit of racial equity for the nation, an unprecedented Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) enterprise that will help communities embrace racial healing...
Closing the Racial Gap in Small Business Lending
January 19, 2016Even if you instantly eliminated all racism from mainstream financial institutions, it would do nothing to erase existing wealth inequality. The median net worth of white households in 2013 was $142,000, more than 13 times the median net worth of...
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Racial Identity, and Its Hostilities, Return to American Politics
January 5, 2016Why do working-class Americans vote as they do? The question has long bedeviled analysts on the left, troubled that people who would largely benefit from a more robust government seem so often to vote for right-leaning politicians eager to cut...