With the COVID-19 pandemic, making sure every child has access to a quality STEM education is even more difficult. But there are reasons to be hopeful, too.

"...there has been almost no research on how racism drives activism, especially for young people." A new study investigates that relationship.

"We provide the first causal evidence that retaking the SAT can substantially improve the college enrollment outcomes of students."

"We provide the first causal evidence that retaking the SAT can substantially improve the college enrollment outcomes of students."

"New Deal housing policies encouraged racial segregation and their substantial impact on American cities and towns can still be seen today."

The way we talk reveals a lot about us, the author of a new book argues. But biases against certain kinds of speech are easy to pass to kids, she says.

In a new study, Black women with natural hairstyles were seen as less professional and offered fewer job interviews than women with straightened hair.

Traditional ideas about masculinity may be a barrier for young Black men in getting the mental health care they need, researchers report.

Black and Hispanic pregnant women in Philadelphia are five times as likely as white and Asian women to have been exposed to the coronavirus, research finds.

The US has a long history of anti-Asian hate crimes and "othering," say researchers, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese internment camps, and other events.