A recent study showed that hiding your social identity at work, whether race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, or sexual identity, resulted in decreased job satisfaction and turnover. Researchers also found that workers who hid their social identity were more likely to be exposed to discriminatory behavior because coworkers...

In a NYtimes.com short documentary, "The Scars of Stop and Frisk," Tyquan Brehon estimates that he was stopped and frisked by New York City police over 60 times before he turned 18 years old. A report by the New York Civil Liberties Union suggests that Brehon's...

There is a natural hair revolution going on among black women in the U.S., and this time the revolution is being televised. Last Sunday, the "Melissa Harris-Perry" show on MSNBC included a roundtable discussion on black hair in which the entire panel of black women donned natural styles....

As we wait for the Supreme Court to announce the fate of the Affordable Care Act, researchers at the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center have released a study that indicates that the Affordable Care Act will dramatically shrink racial and ethnic differences in health care coverage. Currently 21.6...

Though the most visible black man in America has endorsed gay marriage, don't think that our long struggle to reconcile the religious ethics that animate so many black communities and gay rights is over.

Many black pastors claim that their disagreement with same sex marriage is rooted in scripture....