Anita Foeman’s students had just gotten the results from their genetic tests, and they couldn’t wait to talk. One said her dad cheered when she…
A New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans…
Our first black president will turn over the White House next month to a man I took to calling the Orange Hindenburg, back when I…
In 2015, Race Inquiry Inc. was founded as an independent on-line web site devoted to the dissemination of news about race in America. Although there…
The impact of middle school students chanting “build a wall” on Latino students in the city of Royal Oak, Michigan. Watch the video here
After President-elect Donald Trump’s recent victory, some of his supporters celebrated by flying Confederate battle flags from pickup trucks and waving them at rallies. But…
Any history of black people in America will have to look closely at the year 2014. In a cascading series of events that summer, the…
Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk is about to be a father, and he’s nervous. America’s history of racial violence is something that every citizen inherits,…
For Americans to fully understand the current racial divide in the United States, citizens need to delve deep into how “whiteness” has been constructed and…
I’m going to level with you. Getting inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is hard. “Advanced timed passes for April…
When I went to Mississippi to cover the trial, I had no idea that the story would become so relevant again more than 60 years…
Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were against her: At that time, only 18 black…
To some, the fight for civil rights in America is an important, but distant, memory. According to history books, the struggle to end racial segregation…
A new trailer for a docuseries about a Bronx teenager, Kalief Browder, who was jailed for three years and spent two of them in solitary…
In the fight for racial justice on campus, 2016 stands in the shadow of 2015. Last November, black students took American higher education by storm—raining…
