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A gamer who says she has mixed-race heritage was allegedly denied entry to a U.S.-based Call of Duty tournament curated for Black women because its organizer thought she “presents as white.” The ...

A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black. Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan ...

Racism : looking forward, looking back / Ron Daniels -- Still at the periphery : the economic status of African Americans / Julianne Malvaeux -- Blacks in the labor movement / Interview with Bill ...

In the classroom of teacher Ahenewa El-Amin at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky., where murals of books and the words “read” and “think” decorate the walls, junior Nia Henderson-Louis held up a ...

London — There are almost 4,000 emojis to help people express themselves online, but a group of young design students in London says none of them feature Black or mixed-race hairstyles, and they're ...

Unconscious racial stereotyping among physicians may be occurring in medical diagnoses and treatment of African American patients, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public ...

Over the past 18 years, a group of African Americans has been quietly providing grants to nonprofits in Charlotte that serve the city’s Black communities. The New Generation of African American ...