Pew Research Center

For Many Black Americans, Family Extends Beyond Birth and Legal Ties

Relatives meet at Conroe Community Cemetery in Conroe, Texas, where many of the town’s earliest Black residents are buried, in February 2025. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) About ...
Pew Research Center

7. Black Americans’ mistrust of U.S. government policies on family and reproductive health

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...
The New York Times

At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing

Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted across the board. Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are ...
NPR

Black men are a hidden segment of caregivers. It's stressful but rewarding, too

Robert Turner didn't expect the last 24 hours to go this way. His father, who's 85, ended up in the hospital overnight. Turner has just picked him up and helped him into the car so he can take him ...
NPR

Fewer Black men are enrolling in HBCUs. Here's why and what's being done

The absolute number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it's been since 1976. That's according to recent analysis from the American Institute for Boys ...