People in many parts of the United States possess few chances for the robust community engagement that underpins healthy democracies, according to a new report that for the first time maps civic ...

A South Carolina public school teacher has been accused by some of her students of "indoctrination studies" and causing them to feel ashamed to be White. Mary Wood is an advanced English language ...

A Midlands school district shut down classroom discussion of a book on racism after complaints that it violated a state law prohibiting instruction on controversial topics related to race. Students in ...

In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity — race or class? A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges ...

We have come a long way since the Civil Rights Movement, and many Americans feel that the time for affirmative action is over. Opportunities for women and people of color have expanded, and many ...

That lesson was at the heart of an animated four-minute video, “Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race,” shown Feb. 4 at Glen Allen High School as part of a Black History Month ...

Chapin, S.C. - As gold sunlight filtered into her kitchen, English teacher Mary Wood shouldered a worn leather bag packed with first-day-of-school items: Three lesson-planning notebooks. Two peanut ...

February is Black History Month, and throughout the month there are opportunities around the state to learn more about African Americans’ contributions to Alaska, celebrate our achievements and work ...

Where do we go from here: Chaos or community? This is what Martin Luther King Jr. sought to answer in 1967 as he studied the state of America's race relations and the struggle for civil rights. Nearly ...

The research team worked with big data and computational tools to develop a more precise map of civic opportunity than previously possible. People in many parts of the United States possess few ...