Marni Brown found herself pondering, “Why does race matter in this selection process and why do lesbians, in general, want their offspring to look like them? Is the desire for our children to look like us actuality a cover-up for racially driven decisions that perpetuate inequality in already marginalized communities?”

here’s a fact Cynthia Golembeski learned while researching criminal justice reform and teaching college classes in prisons: the reason the transition to life outside the corrections system is so hard is that there are more than 44,000 indirect consequences of a criminal conviction.

Are we on the cusp of a vibrant social movement that will produce major transformations in our practices and policies? Or are we fated to see the communal expressions of grief and calls for change dissolve into contentious policy debates that may result in relatively modest reforms unequal to the fervent hopes now spinning in the streets?

Ever since the coronavirus spread across the world, suspicions have proliferated about what is really going on. Questions arose about […]

Stephanie A. Jirard, professor of criminal justice at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and author of Criminal Law and Procedure: A […]

Noting the value of straight and cisgender allies in LGBTQ inclusion effort, David Glasgow describes his NYU center’s model for a three-stage process of developing allyship.

Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard […]

Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard […]

Vincent Adejumo says that his My scholarship in the discipline of black politics can explain why there aren’t any national African American leaders at this moment, filling roles like Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and others once did.

In light of the global coronavirus pandemic, anthropologists around the world have been preparing to utilize knowledge gained from past […]

Seeing people stream out onto the streets is probably the most hopeful Akwugu Emejulu has been since the start of the pandemic. Amid mass death, incompetent and vengeful leadership and economic collapse, people join together to demand more and better for themselves.

Countries across the world have been turning to behavioral science in the fight against coronavirus. In May, The New Scientist proclaimed that ‘behavioral […]