Gender, race and religion shape and reflect contemporary American politics, scholars emphasized at a Wednesday event. Five experts in history, gender studies and government offered their perspective ...

Heading into the fall campaign for president, U.S. religious groups that traditionally have leaned Republican are backing former President Donald Trump by wide margins, while religious groups that ...

Most U.S. adults express positive views about America’s openness to people from around the world, the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. This is true across the religious spectrum. Upward of ...

No community wants to see a judicial system delivering repeated acquittals despite videotaped evidence showing excessive, even criminal, use of force by police. No police officer wants to see ...

Schools have been the center of laws concerning LGBTQ issues, race and religion. As students across the United States head back to school, classrooms may begin to feel the effects of laws concerning ...

Memphis is known for blues, barbecue, and kings. Elvis Presley, the "king of rock 'n' roll," shook, rattled, and rolled his way to stardom by drawing from the art of African Americans. He was, ...