Culture, Society, and DE&I

One anthropologist has made it her mission to remove racial prejudices from the study of hair and find the evolutionary roots of hair diversity.

To better understand present-day housing discrimination, we looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated -- just like they were designed to be.

Why some same-gender relationship households have higher median incomes than opposite-gender relationship households.

A new analysis by the Census found that the median gay married couple had a household income of $121K compared with $93K among their lesbian counterparts, highlighting wage gaps in same-gender families.

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's largest grocery retailer, today announced its 2022 Food Trends Report, which predicts emerging food trends, consumer behaviors and popular items for the year ahead. This fourth-annual report centers on the continued dominance of at-home meals, powered by convenience, affordability, social gatherings, and the desire for sustainable and nutrient-rich food items. Kroger's 2022 Food Trends Report is thoughtfully curated by Kroger's food experts – from Our Brands product developers to culinary specialists. The report contains 10 top trends that will influence consumer food purchases in 2022, while uncovering the "why" behind the trends. Overall, the trends can be broken down into emerging flavors, food item premiumization, and behavior shifts, all of which paint a picture of what consumers are sourcing and the ways in which they are preparing food in 2022. The findings show that consumers continue to have an increased passion for home-prepared meals, an

The pandemic has only accelerated a decline in US birth rates, even as immigration has plummeted.

The platform’s highest-paid celebrities collectively hauled in $55.5 million in 2021, a 200% increase from a year ago, thanks to TV, movies, merchandise and ads.

The average podcast in the top 10 is more than seven years old.

Zola surveyed 3,309 couples to figure out what they want from their 2022 weddings and how they're making it happen.

White men manage 97% of all hedge fund assets.

Just 1.4% of America's wealth is handled by asset management firms that are owned by women and/or people of color as of September 2021, even though there is zero difference in performance.

Thieves are stealing catalytic converters and earning between $50 to $300 by selling them to scrap yards. Insurance claims for stolen converters jumped from 3,389 in 2019 to 14,433 in 2020. The cost of replacing a stolen catalytic converter can cost uninsured victims north of $1,000.

The new research sequenced genomes from the bones of 12 Japanese people who lived across a range of time periods and found that approximately 71 percent of modern Japanese people’s ancestry comes from this third population.

Beauty is an ever-changing goalpost that has everything do with race, class and power. Learn about the western colonization of the beauty industry and how it's shaped standards in the East and among Latinas, including driving patterns of disordered eating.

Social media posts containing expletives has increased 27% on Twitter and 41% on Facebook between 2019 and 2021. Another profanity-filtering service run by Inversoft found that the volume of filtered words has tripled in the past 18 months on the forums and message boards.

Following up on a newsletter from two weeks ago, the US Census Bureau reported that the US population increased by just 392,665 people (about the population of Cleveland, OH), or 0.1%, from July 2020 to July 2021, bringing the total population to 331.8M people. This the first time that the population grew by less than 1 million people since 1937.

Merriam-Webster investigated the curious origins of the word "asshat," which emerged in the late 1990s.

The ongoing debate over transgender rights in rural America frames transness as a nascent movement, ignoring a long undercurrent of transgender history that is all but forgotten.

From March 2020 to March 2021, the number of Latinas in the workforce dropped by 2.74%, the biggest drop of any demographic group.

Similarities and differences in languages related to color are due to variations in communicative need across cultures.

Across 115 disciplines that publish to the PubMed or arXiv paper repositories, 87 had fewer than 45% women authors in 2016.

Innovators' personal experience and social networks may affect their familiarity with customer needs, and in turn the types of products they bring to market. For example, startups with a female founder are also more likely to sell products with a disproportionately female consumer base.

1 in 6 parents report high stress levels during the holidays. Twice as many mothers than fathers report high levels of holiday stress. 1 in 5 parents say their stress level negatively affects their child’s enjoyment of the holidays. 1 in 3 parents are relieved when their child goes back to school after the holiday break.

Algorithms are surfacing content that combines Christian ideas like prosperity gospel with New Age and non-Western spirituality — along with some conspiracy theories.

2021 Google searches revealed our interest in alternative assets like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and persistent economic insecurity, evidenced by questions about stimulus checks and student loan forgiveness. It also showed the cultural rift between millennials and Gen Z cropped up in queries about hair parts and jeans, as did other social media trend, like how to make TikTok pasta or Squid Game cookies. When Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, Americans tried figure out how to be a normal person again, like what kind of pants to wear and if you could wear sweatpants.

A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers.

An interview with Priya Fielding-Singh, the author of “How the Other Half Eats.”

Learn abouot upbringing of Ayn Rand, the Russian American philosopher and writer that described selfishness a virtue and capitalism as the ideal system.

Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.

Elizabeth Hargrave’s Wingspan might also transform the way you think about games—and art.