During a visit to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Angela de Joseph noticed something. As she walked around the Rayburn Office Building for the House of Representatives, very few young people in the ...

One crisp November morning in 2012, a 14-year-old girl named Maia* grabbed her backpack and rushed out of the house to make the morning bell. She took her normal route to school but picked up her pace ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 7-year-old girl won more than $16,000 at a crowdfunding festival to publish the comic book that she wrote to empower girls of color. Natalie McGriff created "The Adventures of ...

For these young women of color, ice skating helps fight discrimination. Ila Epperson had always grappled with her identity. Adopted when she was a baby, the 15-year-old said she struggled to figure ...

Similar to the Villanova University report released in December about how black girls with browner hues were disciplined much more harshly and much more frequently than fairer-skinned black girls, a ...

Black women athletes have driven sports industry progress through their barrier-breaking efforts in racial integration, and ...

At its annual meeting on Jan. 31 at Holy Cross, the Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition eyed challenges of bias, barriers, ...

Zoe, 11, wants to "let little brown girls know that their image is beautiful." — -- Meet the 11-year-old philanthropist and entrepreneur who is collecting and donating dolls of color to little ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog for the past nine years. Douglas joined NHL.com in March 2019 and writes about people of color in the sport. Today, he profiles MN Unbounded ...

William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog for the past nine years. Douglas joined NHL.com in March 2019 and writes about people of color in the sport. Today, as part of Asian & Pacific ...