Past Articles by Gene Demby
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For People Of Color, A Housing Market Partially Hidden From View A new study has found that blacks, Latinos and Asians looking for homes were shown fewer housing options than whites who were equally qualified. And fewer options meant higher housing costs. |
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New Ads Still Warn A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste   The United Negro College Fund's new campaign shows just how much the way we talk about and around race has changed. |
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New Ads Still Warn A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste The United Negro College Fund's new campaign shows just how much the way we talk about and around race has changed. |
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New Ads Still Warn A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste The United Negro College Fund's new campaign shows just how much the way we talk about and around race has changed. |
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New Ads Still Warn A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste The United Negro College Fund's new campaign shows just how much the way we talk about and around race has changed. |
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The Many Different Faces Of Marijuana In America A majority of Americans think weed should be legalized, according to recent polls. It's portrayed as silly, but not dangerous, in pop culture. Yet marijuana arrests — which fall disproportionately on people of color — have been central to the war on drugs. |
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So Single Black Men Want Commitment. Really? Lots of people were surprised by our recent poll findings on single African-Americans and commitment. So why'd the numbers look the way they did? |
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The First Lady, A Heckler And Public Dissent It was hard for people to ignore the racial optics of the exchange last night between Michelle Obama and a heckler. |
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New Survey Takes A Snapshot Of The View From Black America Despite being buffeted by high unemployment and the recession in recent years, African-Americans expressed high levels of life satisfaction and optimism for the future. |
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Desis Dominate The National Spelling Bee When Arvind Mahankali won the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee last night, he became the sixth consecutive Indian-American winner and the 11th in the past 15 years. |
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After A Mass Shooting, New Orleanians Rally Around A Local Tradition Second-lines — jazzy, rolling dance parties — are a staple in the black neighborhoods of the Big Easy. But on Mother's Day, a second-line parade was marred by a mass shooting that left 19 people injured. The violence has sparked questions of whether the events should be shut down, but those in "the culture" say linking violence to second-lines is unfair. |
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On Behalf Of [BLANK] People Everywhere ... Members of minority groups are often perceived as sharing a connection with prominent members of that group, whether they want to or not. Those connections often fall into four common types. |
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Are We Laughing With Charles Ramsey? Our reaction to overnight Web celebrities like Charles Ramsey, Antoine Dodson, Sweet Brown and Ted Williams deserves a longer look. |
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Crunching The Numbers On Blacks' Views On Gays When the veteran NBA player Jason Collins came out, an old narrative about black antigay sentiment was resurrected. But is it true? |
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What Do We Do About America's Racial Wealth Gap? A sobering new study shows that the disparity in wealth between whites and people of color has grown since the recession began. |
 America's seismic demographic shift is upending life in our suburbs, cities and our popular culture. So why are we still clinging to the same stories to make sense of these changes? |
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A Quvenzhane by Any Other Name... (Storified) After journalists on the Oscars red carpet struggled to pronounce the name of 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, Twitter users shared their stories about the funny, annoying butcherings of their own "unconventional" and "ethnic" names. One example: "Jambalayaiah" for Jamelyahweh. |
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An Accused Killer Seeks An Audience With Everyone The former Los Angeles police officer accused of killing three people and shooting others addressed a letter to Americans airing his grievances. How are we to respond? |
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Children Of Latino Immigrants Skew Even More Democratic Than Parents, Study Says The report also found that Latinos and Asian-Americans born in the U.S. are more likely to support abortion and gay rights than their foreign-born parents. |
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Children Of Latino Immigrants Skew Even More Democratic Than Parents, Study Says The report also found that Latinos and Asian-Americans born in the U.S. are more likely to support abortion and gay rights than their foreign-born parents. |
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Even When They Qualify For Citizenship, Few Mexican Immigrants Seek It Mexican immigrants who are eligible for U.S. citizenship are much less likely to apply for naturalization than those from other immigrant groups, a study found. |
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Even When They Qualify For Citizenship, Few Mexican Immigrants Seek It Mexican immigrants who are eligible for U.S. citizenship are much less likely to apply for naturalization than those from other immigrant groups, a study found. |
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Brain Injuries And The NFL: A Fan's 5 Stages Of Grief When it comes to football players suffering brain injuries, many NFL fans seem to have moved past denial, the first stage of coping with a terrible reality. It's followed by anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. |
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For Asian-Americans, Immigration Backlogs Are A Major Hurdle The national conversation around immigration policy tends to focus on Latinos, but Asian-American immigrants face some of the knottiest challenges. |
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Boy Scouts' Repeal Of Gay Ban Mirrors Its Approach To Racial Integration The Boy Scouts are set to let local troops decide on rules for admitting gay members and leaders, a policy similar to its approach to racial integration that many find unsatisfactory. |
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In Immigration Debate, 'Undocumented' Vs. 'Illegal' Is More Than Just Semantics The term "illegal immigrant" has become a thorny subject — which might explain why President Obama opted not to use it in his address on immigration reform. But the term "undocumented immigrant" is not without its own political connotations. |
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In Immigration Debate, 'Undocumented' Vs. 'Illegal' Is More Than Just Semantics The term "illegal immigrant" has become a thorny subject — which might explain why President Obama opted not to use it in his address on immigration reform. But the term "undocumented immigrant" is not without its own political connotations. |
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In New Immigration Plan, A Fraught Phrase Is Mostly Sidelined Mostly missing from the bipartisan plan to overhaul immigration: the term "illegal immigrant." |
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In New Immigration Plan, A Fraught Phrase Is Mostly Sidelined Mostly missing from the bipartisan plan to overhaul immigration: the term "illegal immigrant." |
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A Senator's Surprising Inauguration Shout-Out Probably Wasn't So Surprising Lamar Alexander, the Republican senator from Tennessee, and Alex Haley, the author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, were close friends and native Tennesseans. |
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A Senator's Surprising Inauguration Shout-Out Probably Wasn't So Surprising Lamar Alexander, the Republican senator from Tennessee, and Alex Haley, the author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, were close friends and native Tennesseans. |
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'Make Me Asian' App Removed From Google Play Store It let users alter photos turn faces into stereotypical Asian caricatures. That led to protests from Asian-American activists and a Twitter campaign — #makemeracist — to convince Google to take down the app. |
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'Make Me Asian' App Removed From Google Play Store It let users alter photos turn faces into stereotypical Asian caricatures. That led to protests from Asian-American activists and a Twitter campaign — #makemeracist — to convince Google to take down the app. |
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Post-Election Americans Perceive Less Class Conflict and Tension Over Immigration You might think that after a pretty rancorous election season there would be lingering acrimony between people who belong to groups embroiled in some of the campaign's most heated debates. But if there is, a new study by Pew found that many Americans don't feel that way. |
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'Latin@' Offers A Gender-Neutral Choice; But How To Pronounce It? A growing number of people are using the web-friendly and gender-neutral appellation "Latin@," which includes both the masculine "o" and the feminine "a." |
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White House Website Draws Petition To End All Petitions We the People is supposed to be an online way for the public to petition the president. It's being used by advocates to score political points. Media critic and blogger Jeff Jarvis says it's time to stop the stunts. So he has, of course, started a petition. |
