race and ethnicity

PARIS (AP) — A leading Jewish authority in the French city Marseille has asked fellow Jews to refrain from wearing their traditional skull cap to stay...

MUNICH (AP) — An annotated edition of "Mein Kampf," the first version of Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end o...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are fighting for the favor of many of the same undecided voters across Iowa, where even some of the...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Leah Chase has spent her culinary life on the cutting edge of history, mixing fine dining with her southern Louisiana roots at her ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traff...

CHICAGO (AP) — Pardeep Kaleka spent several days after 9/11 at his father's South Milwaukee gas station, fearing that his family would be targeted by ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears torn over the use of race in college admissions and may not be ready to make a decision without more infor...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Justice Department will investigate patterns of racial disparity in the use of force by Chicago police officers as part of a wide-r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The growing political influence of Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over the constitutional requirement to make elect...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the campaign trail, among candidates of both parties, the idea of locking up drug criminals for life is a lot less popular than i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama recognized 17 Americans with the nation's highest civilian award on Tuesday, including the first African-Amer...

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times was charged with murder Tuesday, just a day before the deadline a jud...

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Princeton University has agreed to look into the legacy of alumnus and former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson after a group of st...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city's small but conce...

PARIS (AP) — The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local): ___ 3 a.m. President Barack Obama says he's taking a wait-and-see approach ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that's 10 percent black in two years, it will li...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Pharrell Williams signed up to perform at an all-star concert highlighting race relations in America, the multi-layered musician ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Community members and activists demanded Monday that Minneapolis police identify an officer who shot a black man suspected in an as...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The criticism was blunt: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-Ame...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Efforts are underway at the University of Missouri to address the racial tensions that led to demonstrations by students, a strik...