The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research. The study will ...

WASHINGTON — Biomedical researchers should change the way they use race and ethnicity in their research, says a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, calling on ...

If you've ever filled out a demographic form (like the US Census), you've probably been asked about your race and ethnicity. You might even wonder exactly what those terms mean and how they differ.

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...

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ORLANDO, Fla. — For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count ...

Is it the beginning of the end of “anti-critical race theory” legislation? Starting in 2021, state lawmakers introduced a wave of such proposals, many modeled off a 2020 executive order signed by then ...