Minorities

New essay collection explores the ways Jordan's Peele's 2017 film "Get Out" "revolutionizes the gothic and horror tradition at the same time that it unmasks the particular politics of race in the early twenty-first-century United…

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Marked racial disparities exist in confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, investigators say, and highlight urgent needs to ensure adequate testing and treatment are available to…

New research and report show the impact of Michigan's safety-net health coverage, and could inform states that are now considering or preparing for expansion The most vulnerable residents of the nation's 10th most populous state say their…

Several essays look specifically at how racial inequality is embodied in health inequities. Black Lives in a Pandemic: Implications of Systemic Injustice for End-of-Life Care Alan Elbaum In recent months, Covid-19 has devastated…

Credit: ATS July 08, 2020 - Results of an analysis published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society found that Black individuals were twice as likely as White individuals to test positive for COVID-19. The average age of…

A new Hastings Center special report takes a critical look at the role of genomics in perpetuating racism and inequality Genomics is crowding out ways of reducing inequality, has thwarted medicine from advancing justice, and is creating…

Kai Ruggeri's research has one overriding objective: to improve the well-being of populations by confronting inequality. He is a behavioral scientist at Columbia who uses data science to design interventions and recommend policies that…

Discrimination against people perceived to have COVID-19 increased from March to April 2020 Discrimination against people thought to be infected with coronavirus was experienced by a rising number of United States residents, particularly…

FINDINGS States with the highest level of income inequality had a larger number of COVID-19-related deaths compared with states with lower income inequality. New York state, with the highest income inequality, had a mortality rate of…

Incarceration and police discrimination may worsen psychological and physical health, Rutgers led study finds Incarceration and police discrimination may contribute to HIV, depression and anxiety among Black gay, bisexual and other sexual…

UC Riverside study exposes disparities in health care access in rural Southern CaliforniaCredit: Center for Healthy Communities, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A University of California, Riverside, study that sought to…

MADISON, Wis. -- Showing people how their peers feel about diversity in their community can make their actions more inclusive, make members of marginalized groups feel more like they belong, and even help close racial achievement…

Leveling the playing field for English learners Credit: University of Houston With a five-year, $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, David Francis, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished…

Project is part of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network funded by the National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, July 1, 2020 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that researchers from…

Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the U.S. are caregivers for the more than 6 million people living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). For many caregivers in rural…

New paper explores what factors contributed to risk, especially in minority and non-English speaking communities In a research letter published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine on COVID-19, Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, a…

Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayal Credit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group in Uganda, are not incredibly selfish and mean as portrayed in a 1972 book by a prominent…

Study of two metro areas finds where parks, trees and other green spaces are located COLUMBUS, Ohio - Access to green spaces in metro areas--parks, trails, even the tree cover in a neighborhood - is largely associated with income and race,…

Moving empathetic mentoring groups online did not diminish their supportive powerCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Over the last 20 years, many academic institutions have conducted surveys in STEM disciplines, seeking ways to…

We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was celebrating our bicentennial, and launched while Singapore is battling COVID-19, one of the…