Rather than the traditional African and African-American studies programs offered in universities across the nation, there is now an analogous white American studies program that examines the cultural experiences of white Americans, the European immigrant groups they’re descended from, and how race and their ethnicities influence their lives. The Whiteness Project now seems to be the…

It sounds like a scene from The Wire.  Timothy Sinnigen, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, was hell-bent on bringing down a drug distribution ring in New York, so he created a fake Facebook account pretending to be Sondra Arquiett, a woman accused of being affiliated with the drug ring, in order to solicit information from…

The nonwhite families that were kicked off their land during apartheid say the process to reclaim their land has been too slow, the BBC reports.  The policy was called the Group Areas Act, and it reinforced the regional separation of the races. “Among other things, it led to the removal of nonwhites from real estate…

Passengers landing at five U.S. airports who come from any of the three West African nations most affected by the Ebola outbreak—Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—will have their temperatures taken as a way to screen for the virus, the New York Times reports. The screenings, which will begin as early as this weekend, will take place…

The images of the African-American women seen on Aunt Jemima pancake boxes through the years go hand in hand with the brand in more ways than one, and that’s why the brand’s current owner is being sued for royalties in a lawsuit filed on behalf of descendants of two Aunt Jemima models, USA Today reports. Descendants…

It’s a command that people commonly hear from police officers when cops are trying to disperse a crowd: “Keep moving.” In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., protesters were told “to keep moving” time and time again by law enforcement, but a federal judge in St. Louis has found that…