About four years ago Clifford Harper, then 85, announced to his wife that he was quitting alcohol. It was the first of a ...

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Our columnist argues 2025's Latine Heritage Month marks the time to stray from empty celebration and a time to foster ...

The issue is ‘reinforced by bias and stereotyping underpinned, in some cases, by racist assumptions’, the report added ...

Racism can be defined as any detectable difference in treatment based solely on race ( West, 2025 ). Whether in job offers, ...

Almost five years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, there was a brief window in which Americans seemed committed to opposing racism in all its forms. Individuals bought ...

Anti-conversion’ laws, arbitrary bulldozer demolitions and deportations indicate the complicity of the Indian state.

Structural racism is linked to higher mortality rates and lower home discharge odds after ischemic stroke in both Black and White Medicare patients.

When media and political elites frame racist violence as a matter of individual hatred or mental illness, they obscure its ...

Few health care professionals would argue with the fact that vast differences exist in access to and outcomes of the care their patients receive, but the reasons why health disparities persist decades ...

As communities of color across America have been disproportionately impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cornell professors came together to discuss these inequities and steps forward to ...

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