Philanthropy has a racism problem. It’s clear from the numbers: Just 7 percent of philanthropic dollars are awarded to groups that specifically serve people of color and others who are part of America ...

No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that have programs designed to ensure equal access for all students.

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take There is a familiar story of Martin Luther King. It’s about the South — about segregated buses and lunch counters, police dogs ...

Chris Hayes of MSNBC and Jamelle Bouie of Slate joined us this afternoon for a community forum on race and justice. Here’s what we learned: The problems are intractable, but there are solutions.

Racial discrimination may be causing alcohol-related problems among Asian American college students, according to a new research published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology. The study, which ...

White homeowners gain millions, while Black and Brown communities pay with their lives. Once promoted as “the winter playground of the Southwest,” Phoenix remains a city deeply shaped by segregation, ...

Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special, it’s clear that “racism of the heart” is still very much ...

Regarding "School leads charge to tackle segregation" (May 6): The executive director of City Garden Montessori is organizing a coalition to address housing and education disparities, hoping to become ...

A recent study published in Nature explores ways that racism continues to impact queer, Asian men in the US. The authors say numerous studies indicate racism impacts the health of non-White ...

When the Trump administration announced in April that it was dismissing the Department of Justice’s decades-long effort to desegregate the Plaquemines Parish School District in Louisiana, the state’s ...

By threatening public schools with diversity initiatives, promoting “school choice,” attacking efforts to make school discipline less racist and doing whatever he can to dismantle the Department of ...