Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by black Americans to their children, such as Jamal…
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On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back…
In the last few decades, many high-paying jobs that are mostly done by men – like manufacturing – have contracted…
The U.S. is becoming more racially diverse. Since 2010, 96% of all U.S. counties registered an increase in their percentage…
As Christmas approaches, many families undertake a familiar ritual: an annual sojourn to the attic, basement or closet to pull…
Fall is almost gone and winter is coming, as are hundreds of hearth cooking demonstrations at countless historic homes and…
In recent years, U.S. public opinion has been divided about the existence and seriousness of racism, sexism and other forms…
Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler version of their “predatory” cousin, the payday loan. But for consumers, they may…
Millions of people voted in an online poll in 2015 to have the face of Harriet Tubman on the US$20…
Toni Morrison, a Nobel Prize-winning US writer known for her work on race, died in August, aged 88. In offering…