The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...

Do you have blue eyes? We talked to experts to discover curious facts about baby blues. Like, are all blue-eyed people ...

Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student ...

Blue-eyed children were given special privileges, while brown-eyed children had to sit in the back of the classroom and couldn't use the same drinking fountain as blue-eyed classmates. Her experiment ...

RICEVILLE - The author who sparked controversy with his account of cultural tensions in Postville is tackling what he predicts will be an equally touchy subject. University of Iowa journalism ...

Inequality (some subtle, some not-so-subtle) between the races has been around for centuries. To this day, our nation continues protesting racism and discrimination. People have had enough of being ...

Elliott created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom exercise in 1968 to teach students about racism. Today, she says, it's still playing out as the... The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in ...

Racial prejudice has been part of America for 400 years. Some changes have occurred, but perhaps the most salient is the way that technology now permits capturing and publicly sharing longstanding ...