Race and Ethnicity

A study of medical costs and income losses found that those who can least afford to pay for health care and miss out on their paychecks rack up the biggest bills.

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order acknowledging the toll of structural racism in the United States and initiating a data-driven approach to advancing racial equity. As part of…

The fact is that if you want to build teams or organizations capable of innovating, you need diversity. Diversity enhances creativity. It encourages the search for novel information and perspectives,…

Employee well-being is intrinsically tied to workplace performance and engagement. Leading employers recognize that the health and wellness of their workforce can impact success and business outcomes, which has contributed to…

Medicine works better when the treatments are tailored to fit each individual person’s biology and history. A first step is increasing diversity in clinical trials, but the end goal is precision medicine.

In the United States, racial inequalities and disparities stem from policies and practices that perpetuate structural racialization. Structural racialization is a “set of practices, cultural norms, and institutional arrangements that…

Over a half century after transformative civil rights laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal, our nation is still grappling with its…

Black students face increasing rates of depression and suicide. One group of young people in California is working hard to reverse that.

This is the seventh in a series of articles based on the guide to Centering Equity in Corporate Purpose published by FSG and the Shared Value Initiative in May 2022.

A dialogue with Wilbert L. Cooper, a reporter from a family of Black officers, on why Black officers are no cure for police violence.

African American History teacher Abigail Henry on what DeSantis’ AP African American History ban means — and what teachers can do about it.

Current medical standards for accessing stroke risk perform worse for Black Americans than for white Americans, research finds.