Social Equality Comes With a Beat, Again
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âStep Up 2 the Streetsâ posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichÃ©s arenât clichÃ©s.
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Even as African Americans and other minorities have made economic progress in the last 40 years, many of those reaching the middle-income rung are finding it a hollow promise.
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Viewpoint: A big change is taking place in America, says Jim Wallis: the advent of a more dynamic and progressive faith that is addressing social injustice
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We love the romantic pretense of a homogenous, melting-pot America. It makes us feel good, gives us a sense of nobility and brings closure to our well-documented history of discriminating against one another.
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In brief Mopping up the minorities
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When companies start talking about a âmerger of equals,â someone is usually getting the better deal. It is especially true in the proposed merger of XM and Sirius.
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Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.
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The world is often divided along national, racial and religious lines. But a leading social psychologist says those divisions donât necessarily have to result in conflict.
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Sitting in the same spot where her husband preached equality more than four decades ago, Coretta Scott King said Saturday that Martin Luther King Jr.'s message is as relevant today as it was in the 1960s.
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Â· Pioneering atlas reveals increasing social divisions Â· Research shows areas of riches and disadvantage
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Female solidarity â or the lack of it â seems to be a popular theme on television this summer.
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In a country that has long prided itself on homogeneity, it's becoming cool for youth to embrace the growing number of foreigners in their midst.
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FRIDAY, July 13  -- Convenience has become a fixture in American society. As life grows more fast-paced, people look for more corners to cut and ways to save time.
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Decades after the civil rights movement's greatest victories, black youth often see a world rife with discrimination, a new survey says. And yet they remain optimistic about their chances for affecting social change.
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Income inequality is near record levels in many countries, and the worldÂs wealth has become even more narrowly concentrated than income.
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Marriage in India is still, by and large, socially compulsory. But in a measure of the slow churning of Indian social mores, divorce and remarriage are slowly gaining acceptability.
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Children raised by same-sex couples perform in school and get along with their parents just as well as those from traditional, opposite-sex families, according to a study in the journal Child Development.