Racism has long disrupted relationships, deepened social divisions, and hindered collective action on global challenges.

But structural racism recognizes that, while personal agency is an indispensable element of success in America, the ways in which some individuals and communities are positioned in the wider society ...

New research links discrimination, chronic stress, and inflammation to higher mortality rates among Black Americans. For ...

Researchers at Michigan State University and Rutgers University will lead a nationally funded study that will examine the effects of structural racism on housing, aging, and health. In a ...

Few health care professionals would argue with the fact that vast differences exist in access to and outcomes of the care their patients receive, but the reasons why health disparities persist decades ...

The structural-racism analysis does not assert that any individuals involved in mortgage finance were motivated by prejudice or bigotry. Rather it suggests that the cumulative effect of regulatory ...

Black Americans die younger than their White counterparts, with an estimated 1.63 million "excess" deaths having occurred ...

Almost five years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, there was a brief window in which Americans seemed committed to opposing racism in all its forms. Individuals bought ...

Neighborhoods in the highest quintile, or top 20%, of structural racism experienced significantly higher rates of cardiovascular clinical and behavioral risk factors and cardiovascular diseases ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Few health care professionals would argue with the fact that vast differences exist in access to and outcomes of the care their patients receive, but the reasons why health disparities ...

If Congress lets ACA subsidies expire, insurance premiums will skyrocket for millions of people. It would worsen the ongoing maternal mortality crisis in the U.S. – especially for Black women. “It is ...

More than thirty years ago James Baldwin, one of the most notable voices on civil rights, reflected on the so-called progress of addressing racism in the US with the quote: “What is it you wanted me ...