In his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that, “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is ...

In Ava DuVernay’s seventh feature, Origin, which premiered tonight at the Venice Film Festival, the exploration of caste systems as a mode of oppression takes center stage. With screenplay written by ...

International Women’s Day, March 8, was the occasion for reports and commentary on women’s oppression ─ its continuation and its softening, here and there. A lot of the oppression stems from women’s ...

This episode was originally published on June 12, 2024 as “The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation.” Four dalit women in grayscale, over an orange colorized background. Their bare chests ...

Over 80 attendees filed into the List Art Building on Monday to hear author and award-winning sociologist Brittany Friedman discuss her newest book on racial injustice and mass incarceration.

For as long as data have been collected in the United States, they have shown disparities in birth outcomes. In the US medical system, if a baby is Black, she is more than twice as likely to die as a ...