Race & Ethnicity

People gather to march in the annual parade down MLK Boulevard to honor Martin Luther King, in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Brown Center Chalkboard

The achievement gap in education: Racial segregation versus segregation by poverty

Dick Startz

Monday, January 20, 2020

China

Counterterrorism and Preventive Repression: China’s Changing Strategy in Xinjiang

Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Monday, January 6, 2020

Demographics & Population

The 2010s may have seen the slowest population growth in U.S. history

William H. Frey

January 2, 2020

A man walks past an empty house marked for demolition in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, November 20, 2009. Buffalo has 15,000 vacant lots from houses that have been demolished, amounting to 3200 acres of vacant land. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES BUSINESS SOCIETY)

The Avenue

Addressing poverty can heal an increasingly divided country

Andre M. Perry

Monday, December 23, 2019

Reports

Economic Development

Small and midsized legacy communities: Trends, assets, and principles for action

Alan Berube

November 14, 2019

Ardana McFerren sweeps leafs outside of her home in the historic Pullman neighborhood in Chicago November 20, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce the designation of the Pullman neighborhood as a national park on February 19, according to park advocates. The neighborhood's brick homes and ornate public buildings were built in the 1800s by industrialist George Pullman as a blue-collar utopia to house workers from his sleeper car factory. Picture taken November 20, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Nelles (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT POLITICS) - TM3EABN1EN701

Campaigns & Elections

America’s formerly redlined neighborhoods have changed, and so must solutions to rectify them

Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger

Monday, October 14, 2019

Janet Yellen speaking at Hutchins Center diversity event

Report

Former Fed chair Janet Yellen on gender and racial diversity of the federal government’s economists

Janet L. Yellen

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Report

Gender and racial diversity of federal government economists

David Wessel, Louise Sheiner, and Michael Ng

Friday, September 20, 2019

Race & Ethnicity

Not just a typographical change: Why Brookings is capitalizing Black

David Lanham and Amy Liu

September 23, 2019

Blog Posts

students sit at the back of the classroom

Brown Center Chalkboard

Desegregating schools: More than just getting the numbers right

Paul T. Hill

Monday, December 16, 2019

Voters cast their ballot in the U.S. midterm elections in Ferguson, Missouri November 4, 2014. Black anger at a local Democrat's handling of the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has given the Republican candidate some hope of winning the race for St Louis County executive for first time since the 1980s. REUTERS/Whitney Curtis (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - GM1EAB50DEP01

The Avenue

Why the race for Black voters is the most important Democratic primary of them all

Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger

Monday, November 25, 2019

Graduates celebrate at Howard University in Washington

Brown Center Chalkboard

HBCUs are leading centers of education — why are they treated as second-class institutions?

Andre M. Perry

Friday, November 22, 2019

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Events

2019

Oct

Past Event

Countering toxic narratives and real-life challenges for students of color

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

The gender and racial diversity of the federal government’s economists

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

A conversation with Stacey Abrams: Race and political power in the United States

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Washington, DC

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Related Books

What Works in Girls’ Education

By Gene B Sperling and Rebecca Winthrop; Foreword by Malala Yousafzai

2015

The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, and Homi Kharas

2015

Development Projects Observed

By Albert O. Hirschman; Foreword by Cass R. Sunstein; Afterword by Michele Alacevich

2014

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Experts

Andre M. Perry

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

@andreperryedu

Nicol Turner Lee

Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

@drturnerlee

William H. Frey

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Multimedia

Yellow police tape is displayed at a crime scene.

Up Front

Highlights: Improving police culture in America

Jane Miller and Rashawn Ray

Monday, November 4, 2019

A woman holds a sign during a rally against white supremacy in the wake of mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso in front of the White House in Washington, U.S., August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC18B8E32740

Podcast Episode

On racism and white supremacy

Andre M. Perry, Vanessa Williamson, and Fred Dews

Friday, August 9, 2019

Students disembark from a school bus outside The Ivy Apartments, where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 1, 2014. As many as 80 people were in contact with the Dallas Ebola patient at some point, Texas health officials told NBC, marking a significant jump from the 18 people authorities had said may have been exposed to the deadly virus. Additionally, four members of the patient's family have been ordered to stay home as a precaution even though they are not showing symptoms, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement. Picture taken October 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Stone

Podcast Episode

What does the debate over school segregation reveal about the Democratic primary field?

Jon Valant

Friday, July 5, 2019

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