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Byline: Julian Mark Marcus Brown says the legacy of housing discrimination is easy to see in Birmingham, Ala. - just scroll through the real estate listings. Asking prices on comparable [...]

Byline: Brady Dennis, Chris Mooney and Steven Mufson Climate change is unleashing 'far-reaching and worsening' calamities in every region of the United States, and the economic and human toll will [...]

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has dominated headlines this month, homages to her reign and dissections of the Harry and Meghan situation unsurprisingly pushing other news aside, especially other [...]

Byline: John Hirschauer You cannot have it both ways. Either Donald Trump is a threat to constitutional governance and the norms it dictates, or the Constitution itself is an illegitimate [...]

Nearly every county in the United States became more diverse in the last decade as the nation recorded its first drop in the white population in 2020, according to detailed [...]

Byline: Silvia Foster-Frau Nearly a quarter century ago, when Maria de Lourdes Zavala moved here from Michoacán, Mexico, Commerce City was a hub for mostly White agricultural and oil refinery [...]

Byline: Mabinty Quarshie and Donovan Slack, USA TODAY Americans will get their first full look at the country's racial and ethnic makeup in years Thursday when the U.S. Census Bureau [...]

If you were asked to picture the face of someone who has experienced sexual abuse or a sexual assault, who would come to mind? You may think of well-known cases [...]

HOUSTON -- A majority of people who live in the Texas coastal communities of Brownsville, Corpus Christi and Port Arthur are brown and Black. These communities are also locations for [...]

The government report, while acknowledging enduring racism, said Britain provided a model for other white-majority countries on issues of race. Critics accused it of ignoring racial injustice in the country. [...]

The review follows an executive order signed by President Biden requiring federal agencies to pursue racial equity and to support underserved communities in their policies and programming. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

The automated intelligence systems of Instagram and Facebook have repeatedly denied ads placed by small businesses that make stylish clothing for the disabled. Earlier this year Mighty Well, an adaptive [...]

Byline: Sarah Ifft Decker One theme of this week's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has been Republican charges that Democratic questions about Barrett's views, especially related [...]

A respected, combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over three times for promotion to brigadier general. What does his fate say about the Corps? WASHINGTON -- All things being equal, [...]

While the CreateNYC program increased funding for smaller neighborhood arts organizations, it never required institutions to disclose the demographic data that would help measure progress. It was born of high [...]

Byline: Tracy Jan, Jena McGregor, Renae Merle and Nitasha Tiku Corporate America - including Wall Street and Silicon Valley giants - is now pledging to play a bigger role in [...]

The coronavirus outbreak has disproportionately affected some areas of Britain. A Birmingham mosque's car park has been transformed into a makeshift mortuary to handle the influx of bodies. BIRMINGHAM, England [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- China's state-sponsored hackers have drastically changed how they operate over the last three years, substituting selectivity for what had been a scattershot approach to their targets and [...]

The Federal Reserve's research staff is far less diverse than the American population it is meant to serve, a reality that the central bank is trying to change as a [...]

As a new school year begins and students prepare to head off to college, there will be the usual excitement among family and friends as well as anxiety about the [...]

Someone recently gave me a book of photos taken on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1890s. The conditions were horrible: homeless, malnourished children sleeping in a clump, [...]

The first reaction came Friday evening, from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. President Trump had escalated his political attacks on Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat who is also one of [...]

WASHINGTON -- A day after House Democrats retook the majority, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a message to her colleagues that would soon be adopted as a creed. ''We know that [...]

Pressure on Hollywood to be more inclusive is resulting in far better overall gains for female television directors than for nonwhite professionals. According to a report released Wednesday by the [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Indian government released a draft list of citizens living in a northeastern state on Monday that excluded about four million people, raising concerns about the possible [...]

AURORA, Colo. -- In the fast-changing political battleground that is suburban Denver, Somali families dine on goat soup and fish fritters in a onetime Chinese restaurant where golden dragons still [...]

WASHINGTON -- Deaths now outnumber births among white people in more than half the states in the country, demographers have found, signaling what could be a faster-than-expected transition to a [...]

As the Trump administration begins to gut federal enforcement of civil rights laws, minority communities that were targets for predatory home loans before the recession have become vulnerable yet again [...]

LOS ANGELES -- For the past five years, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have hammered Hollywood with annual reports on its exclusion of women and minorities. Academics [...]

LOS ANGELES -- For the past five years, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have hammered Hollywood with annual reports on its exclusion of women and minorities. Academics [...]