Out of 172,549 children, only 36 died within a month of their operation. But of those children, nearly half were black — even though African Americans made up only 11 percent of the patients ...

And many children are being improperly diagnosed because people who speak the standard, more “white” variety of American English are not familiar enough with it to understand that African ...

This post has been updated. African American children are taking their lives at roughly twice the rate of their white counterparts, according to a new study that shows a widening gap between the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Gray News) - A West Virginia couple has been charged for allegedly using their adopted African American kids as “slaves.” Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Lantz, 63, are accused ...

March 25, 2011 — -- A landmark study from the 1940s, conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, showed that 63 percent of African-American children surveyed preferred playing with ...

And black kids in particular drown at a rate more than three times that of white children, while 70 of black children have ... African-American children with parents who themselves do not know ...

Research suggests that African-American and Latino children with autism are diagnosed later in life because of healthcare provider bias and families' lack of access to care, among other reasons.

First lady Michelle Obama says in a new interview that “it matters” African-American children are growing up seeing a black family in the White House.

The husband-and-wife team studied the self-image of Black children, and their psychological experiments performed in the 40s found African American children preferred dolls with white skin. Their ...

African-American children are often diagnosed with autism at older ages than white children, missing years of potential intervention and treatment. Special correspondent John Donvan and producer ...

TAMPA, Fla. — When it comes to the classroom, African American children are often treated differently than white students and education experts say much of the disparate treatment is due to how ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Gray News) - A West Virginia couple has been charged for allegedly using their adopted African American kids as “slaves.” Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Lantz, 63, are ...