An app that's something of a mix between LinkedIn and Yelp is hoping to bridge the entrepreneurial gap by connecting members of the community with black owned businesses. Learn what the app hopes to achieve, why Kansas City was chosen as a starting point and how under representation affects the economy.
Liberals and conservatives alike have condemned the Trump administration’s practice of separating and detaining families at the border. Professor Ariela Schachter expresses her opinion on this topic.
Annie Turnbo Malone became a millionaire early in the 20th century, when a million bucks still meant something. The article quotes Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield's words to explain it.
For the "bankblack" issues, professor John Robinson pointed out an example from the civil rights era: the Montgomery bus boycott.
American women are having so few babies these days that the fertility rate has hit a historic low. Professor Caitlyn Collins argues that we also need to make life better for working moms.
Recently, Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield is on a show talking about her article When Black Men Are Harassed At Work. She talked about: Some of her background and her educational background; why did she decide to research Black professional men and the workplace...
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, presents "The Persistent Problem of the Color Line: Researching Race in the 21st Century" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium.
Professor Caitlyn Collins comments on the attitude of the Americans when they see Swedish dads out with their kids. She points out that this reveals the gender equality problem in the U.S.
The police shooting earlier this month of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s Sacramento backyard has renewed protests over officer-involved deaths of unarmed black men, but research led by Washington University in St. Louis suggests young Hispanic men may face an even greater risk of being killed by police, especially in mixed-income neighborhoods with large Latino populations.
Professor Ariela Schachte's finding that native-born white Americans view immigrants negatively if they think the immigrants are “illegal” is quoted in the article discussing refugees' issues.
Department Chair Steve Fazzari becomes the guest of "National Debt Hits Historic High" by Gretchen Brown, discussing the issues of the growing national debt after the recent action in Congress.
Two U.S. retailers made moves this week to regulate their gun sales based on principle — moves that legislators failed to make in recent years despite public outcry following each incident in a line of mass-shooting tragedies. A pair of Washington University in St. Louis experts say that these actions represent “an expansion of corporate social responsibility.”