In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race “driven by ideology rather than truth.” It singled out a current exhibition at ...

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Biology of RaceNPR's Richard Harris reports on genetics and race. Genetically speaking we are all human, and research supports the notion that race is a cultural construct. In fact, genetic research ...

Race-thinking has been discredited for decades. But it is still with us. Yet race is a historical contingency, not a state of nature. One of the most sinister things about race is that its sibling, ...