In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Americans have long been invested in an ...

OPINION: The growing Christian nationalist Redoubt movement is just the latest example in a long history of plans to make America white again. It just multiplies. Luckily, theGrio is here to help. To ...

A Chicago police officer is suing the city to change his race on his official records after the department said it would allow officers to freely change their gender to match their identity. Mohammad ...

Our nation has, almost from its inception, had to deal with racial issues. In fact, race is the most visible social division in the United States—and unlike what many believe—such dissonance is not ...

Think this should be allowed? A member of the Chicago Police Department has filed a lawsuit against the city to officially change his race on record following the department’s decision to allow ...

Some real estate developers and others selling property in Northern Virginia from 1900 through the 1960s used race-based, restrictive covenants to maintain segregation, and Virginia’s state and local ...

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Race is undeniably felt on a social level, but biologically the concept doesn’t hold up. This discrepancy is illustrated in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, “RACE ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. “Thank God we have in America perhaps the largest percentage of any ...