U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that changes how the U.S. government awards research grants and ...

But African American hair braiding styles stood — and still stand — as a direct challenge to those outdated norms. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black is Beautiful movement sparked a renaissance ...

To the extent that “African American” was designed to change perceptions of what “Black” means, it hasn’t worked. The grand old euphemism treadmill has done it in.

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California, the second BAMPFA exhibition drawn from the Leon collection, after the transcendent Rosie Lee Tompkins show in 2020, demonstrates ...

Back in January, Florida barred its schools from piloting an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. At the time, the state’s evaluators justified this decision with reference to ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have found that better access to technology can go a long way toward achieving equity in ...

By interacting with a series of LLMs using examples of the African American English sociolect, they found that the AI's had an extremely negative view of its speakers—something that wasn't true ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, above, will open the exhibit “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California” on June 8. Running through Nov. 30, the UC ...