Following up on our landmark February 2022 issue, Racism and Health, Health Affairs published a second theme issue, Tackling Structural Racism in Health, in October 2023. Both issues are open access.

Book banning and racism are the themes of the new Spiderman sequel In a sequel to Miles Morales: Spiderman, writer Jason Reynolds crafts a response to censorship in the classroom.He speaks to NPR ...

Systemic racism “I didn’t see another Black person in computer science until more than a decade after high school,” says Juan Gilbert, now at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

A Philadelphia-area theme park is responding to accusations of racism. This comes after a mother accused Sesame Place’s Rosita character of ignoring her two Black daughters during a parade. A ...

SeaWorld-owned theme park Sesame Place was sued for $25 million Wednesday for alleged race discrimination after a Black child was ignored by characters at the park, part of a broader controversy ...

There is a recurrent theme in American history: the clawing back of hard-won progress. And the Supreme Court last week used the most specious of arguments to do so with affirmative action.

Their work shines a spotlight on the challenges and stories of young Black men in the UK, offering audiences a personal and ...

A mother of two called out Sesame Place Philadelphia after claiming that one of the theme park's employees, dressed as Sesame Street character Rosita, shunned her Black daughters. The park denied ...

Sesame Place announced on Tuesday that theme park workers would undergo mandatory racial sensitivity training following several allegations of racism directed at young Black children.

60 years of the anti-racism Convention: progress and achievements in the fight against racial discrimination . The 2025 theme of the International Day is “60th anniversary of the International ...

The October issue of Health Affairs, building on the February 2022 issue that explored racism and health, focuses specifically on structural racism. ... who served as theme issue advisers.