Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.

The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) just released a study that purports to document "heavy discrimination" against white applicants in undergraduate admissions at the Ohio State University and Miami University. The CEO claims that the schools give varying degrees of preference to students of color, especially African Americans and...

A couple of weeks ago the US House of Representatives approved the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, better known as the DREAM Act. This past Saturday, almost 10 years after its initial introduction, a minority of Senators used the threat of a filibuster to end...

Remember when some people said that Barack Obama's election meant we had gone post-racial? It really hasn't turned out that way.

In the last 20 months, we've heard the Attorney General of the United States say we're a "nation of cowards" about race. We've seen a movement of people who...

The recently passed health care reform bill, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will do much to support the health of people of color, not least through its expansion of Medicaid coverage to the near-poor and to childless adults mostly excluded from coverage previously.

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I didn't mean to write a blog post today, I really didn't. But then I finally read that article my mom sent me two days ago from the New Haven Independent in New Haven, Connecticut. The one entitled Outraged Judge Reverses Murder Convictions. (Bless her good heart, but...

What a long, strange year it's been.

A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama's election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim -- flaps over Attorney General Eric Holder's...

So, another political heavyweight - this time Nevada senator and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - runs aground on the shoals of race. Here's the money quote from the recently released book on the 2008 presidential campaign by Time Magazine's Mark Halperin and...

Continuing the dialogue from Mike Barber's article: Words of advice for White would-be writers on race

I'll guess that most Americans, if they think about clemency at all, think it happens way too often and benefits the wrong people. That's because high-profile cases of clemency, or even requests for clemency, are almost invariably unpopular. Dick Cheney...