The Smithsonian will announce Tuesday that the wreckage of a vessel that sank in 1794 has been found, the first time a slaving ship that went down with slaves aboard has been recovered.

In the past, busloads of former detainees have attended a remembrance ceremony at the Granada War Relocation Center. But this year only two people who had lived there could make the trek.

Some Twitter users lashed out in sometimes profanity-laced replies that exhort the president, who is using @POTUS, to kill himself and worse.

The exhibition of Ota Benga in a zoo in 1906 is a stark example of the recent history of racial attitudes.

Pamela Newkirk engrossingly transforms what was billed in 1906 as a lesson in ethnography into a larger window on racism.

For fair housing rules to be meaningful, the federal government will have to restructure its own programs.

Black patients are more likely to trust them, and to become healthier.

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Two faculty from the University of Ulster came to USA for research collaboration with Maryland Center for Health Equity April 4, 2017 to April 7, 2017 For Background visit: research.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=9575

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The Brennan Center for Justice responds to an Op-Ed article.

In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, "Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?"

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Violence in black community threatens the greatest civil right — life