Desegregation has stalled, showing growing disparities - especially for poor Black and Hispanic students.
Back in the late 80’s early 90’s there was a popular dance music group from the UK called Milli Vanilli who fell from grace and the spotlight real hard when after winning Grammy Awards it was revealed that they never even sang on their hit song, “Girl You Know It’s True.” One half of the […]
Marist College and NBC News have released a poll that reveals a majority of White people (52 percent) believe that local police forces treat White…
The Wonkblog over at the Washington Post has a pretty interesting write-up of new research from the Public Religion Research Institute. In a study of race and friendship, PRRI found that…
New research suggests that too much TV time might shorten your life. But not necessarily for the reason you might think. The study of more…
Unemployed Blacks More Resilient During Job Search than Whites The so-called recovery of the US economy has not been equally kind to everyone. Even as the unemployment…
First the bad news: The percentage of Americans with diabetes has doubled since 1988, with nearly one in 10 adults now diagnosed with the blood-sugar…
According to a new study conducted by researchers at Tufts University, Stanford University and the University of California, whether we perceive someone as Black or white depends on the clothes they are wearing. Participants of the experiment were asked to categorize computerized images of people with varying skin tones and clothing. The results show participants […]
Though the conditions of confinement have many negative effects on African-Americans, there seems to be at least one positive outcome of imprisonment: better health care. A research study published by Vanderbilt University sociologist Evelyn Patterson in 2010 shows state prisons are having a positive effect on the mortality rates of Black men. The Grio Reports: […]
Allure magazine polled 2,000 men and women from across the country to find out “what’s beautiful now.” Read some of their findings below regarding confidence, fitness, age and weight! African-American Women Have Killer Confidence African-American women were three times as likely as Caucasian women to rate themselves at the hot end of the spectrum. Women […]
A recent study shows that when suffering from stroke- like symptoms, African Americans are more likely to call a friend instead of 911. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington D.C. interviewed 100 acute stroke patients or those who accompanied them to the hospital and found that 75 percent said they called someone else […]
