Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Dying Tecumseh,' a marble sculpture at the Smithsonian, depicts the Shawnee leader in a heroic light. Frederick Pettrich, ...

Many of my columns are an attempt to disentangle the confusions of biology and culture that lead to misunderstandings about race, and my recent book, The Myth of Race, attempts to shed light on the ...

Racist claims only seem credible in the absence of key scientific and historical knowledge. Source: Wildpixel/iStock To thrive within a healthy brain, biological racism relies on its host to ...

As the days grow shorter and schools prepare to reopen, debates over how students are taught about race, identity, and history are heating up again. In California, San Francisco’s mandatory ...

We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain conditions, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On this ...

What does race mean? Are cultural notions about it firmly rooted in biology, especially genetics, or is race primarily a social construction built on a few superficial characteristics superimposed on ...

Companies are particularly eager to get ahead of the change and ensure they’re catering to a rapidly diversifying market and workforce. Gen Z, the most racially diverse generation in American history, ...

In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race “driven by ideology rather than truth.” It singled out a current exhibition at ...