Political Demographics

Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff greets Samira Ahsan and her mother Sharifa Jahan at a campaign office as he runs for Georgia's 6th Congressional District in a special election.

What Georgia's Runoff Election Can Tell Us About Gender Politics Nationally

11:56am May 21, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Women are fueling a nationwide "resistance," and they're also fueling the campaign of Democratic newcomer Jon Ossoff, while Republican Karen Handel wins conservatives with her pro-life politics.

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Catalina Rodriguez-Lima runs a city office whose mission is to attract new immigrants to Baltimore, a strategy for reversing decades of population decline.

Facing A Population Decline, Baltimore Set Up A Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

4:01am May 20, 2017

by Adrian Florido

Officials in many cities have said protecting immigrants from deportation is a moral imperative. In cities with dwindling tax bases, like Baltimore, it's also a financial one.

The marriage of Mildred Loving, a part-Native American, part-black woman, and her white husband, Richard Loving, led to the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage across the country.

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Steep Rise In Interracial Marriages Among Newlyweds 50 Years After They Became Legal

3:35pm May 18, 2017

by Hansi Lo Wang

Today, one in six newlyweds marry someone outside their race, which appears to allude to a more accepting society.

Members of the South Asian community and others attend a peace vigil for Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the 32-year-old Indian engineer killed at a bar Olathe, Kansas, in Bellevue, Washington on March 5, 2017.

Indian Americans Reckon With Reality Of Hate Crimes

6:02pm May 15, 2017

by Arun Venugopal

Unaccustomed to being targets, they are organizing and marshalling resources after one fateful killing.

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Protesters march during a May Day demonstration outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on May 1, 2017 in San Francisco, California.

Where ICE Already Has Direct Lines to Law-Enforcement Databases With Immigrant Data

1:44pm May 12, 2017

by George Joseph

Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents show that for years, law enforcement in hundreds of jurisdictions, including major sanctuary cities, are feeding information into regional databases.

Limit(less) is a documentary project that explores the visual aesthetics of LGBTQ African immigrants.

Picturing Queer Africans In The Diaspora

11:48am May 12, 2017

by Leah Donnella

A photographer uses his lens to peer through perceptions of queerness in his ancestral home.

The cast of "Miss Saigon" takes part in the curtain call on opening night at the Broadway Theatre on March 23, 2017 in New York City.

This Week In Race: Census Worries, Yellowface And Kendall Jenner. Again.

8:48am May 12, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

In this edition: posers, pretenders and passers.

Public housing in lower Manhattan in New York City.

Location A Bigger Influence Than Race For Children In Public Housing

3:57pm May 09, 2017

by Gene Demby

A new study finds that the neighborhood where children in public housing live impacts their life outcomes in more significant ways than race does.

The Muslim "identity matrix" reduces and commercializes at the same time.

I Am Not Your Muslim

4:36am May 06, 2017

by Nesrine Malik

An "identity matrix" is a trap that presents itself as the answer to broad-brush generalizations about Muslims as terrorists or radicals, but actually ends up being similarly simplistic.

Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a midnight rally at North Carolina State University hours before the polls opened on Election Day. A glut of late-deciding Trump voters may have contributed to her

Pollsters Find 'At Best Mixed Evidence' Comey Letter Swayed Election

4:44pm May 05, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Polling experts have conducted an autopsy on exactly why so many polls were off in the run-up to the 2016 election. They found that state polls were far off, in part because of late-deciding voters.