When I go to a health care provider and check “Black” for my race or ethnicity, it means that my provider — before even seeing me — knows I have dark skin and “different” hair. But the biases or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing provocative views on racism, pop culture, and mental health. Existing racial tensions reached a crescendo in 2020 after ...

Upset small schoolgirl having trustful conversation with compassionate young mother, sitting together on sofa. Wise mommy comforting soothing little child daughter, overcoming problems at home. It has ...

Structural racism is a reality in the American workplace. Studies have shown that all else being equal, white employees are more likely than their non-white peers to receive callbacks for job ...

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. examines race and privilege in the death of Trayvon Martin, saying that being white means having one’s personhood and individuality respected, a privilege so ...

A study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, UCSF and Kaiser Permanente Northern California, or KPNC, has found a strong association between early onset puberty and young ...

There are disagreements among social scientists about what it means to be racially “colorblind” and whether it’s a good or bad thing (Selterman, 2023; Whitley et al., 2023; Wingfield, 2015). Some ...

I am a multiracial person. I am Asian, Latina and white. Like many other multiracial folks, I have experienced a lifelong struggle with feeling like I do not truly belong to any single racial or ...

In an evocative piece at Salon, Myisha Cherry deconstructs racial and gender privilege. She says acknowledging such privileges forces people to admit they didn’t achieve everything on their own.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) has a requirement for “Power & Privilege: Race Workshops. NASA/GSFC intends to purchase the services from S.L. Robbins and Associates on a sole source ...