Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

As conversations emerge about the history of slavery and the Electoral College, Republicans are losing interest in revisiting the system.

We've seen how "stand your ground" leads to an increase in bloodshed against black and brown communities, writes David Love. A Florida sheriff recently used the law to justify not arresting Michael...

Health care policy plays a chief role in maintaining racial inequality.

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America...

A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities.

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren't doing much to level the field for poor kids.

White students have a significant advantage when it comes to where college completers get their credentials and what they study.

This article examines the causes of the diversity issue in higher education.

A new survey from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute shows that black and Hispanic citizens are more likely than whites to face barriers at the polls—and to fear the future...