Breast, colorectal and lung cancers are significant public health burdens in the U.S., accounting for more than 688,000 newly-diagnosed cancers in 2023, with significant racial and ethnic disparities ...

Living in a racially segregated neighborhood puts Black children at a higher risk of having elevated blood lead levels, and this association has persisted over more than two decades, according to new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Racially and economically segregated neighborhoods in New York City had higher rates of advanced-stage diagnoses ...

The U.S. must reduce racial residential segregation if it is to reduce racial disparities in health outcomes, according to a recently published study by researchers at Tufts University School of ...

An “All Are Welcome” yard sign next to a yard sign opposing zoning liberalization in Austin, the irony apparently lost on the homeowner. (Photo by M. Nolan Gray) This is your first of three free ...

The U.S. government establishes a pension system for Civil War veterans and their dependents, the nation’s first general disability and pension system. Black veterans find it much harder to obtain ...

A new United Nations report has documented the "suffocating effects" of Israeli laws, policies and practices against Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in a clear violation of ...

Massachusetts has an extensive history of using racial covenants and exclusionary zoning policies to keep people of color out of certain communities, according to a new report released Wednesday that ...

On March 20, 1924, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the nation’s cruelest, most draconian, segregation law. Designed to preserve white racial “purity,” the legislation became a model for states ...