Race in American Public Policy

Brookings’s experts are contributing research on the historic racial inequalities found in American public policy— from housing to education to banking and beyond.

The Avenue

A revolution of values for Black American families

Andre M. Perry

Friday, May 22, 2020

May 2, 2020; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; A view of downtown Atlanta just prior to the flyover of the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds to honor workers during the pandemic in Atlanta. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY NETWORK

Podcast Episode

A new paradigm for valuing Black communities

Andre M. Perry and Robert Wicks

Friday, May 22, 2020

Know Your Price

By Andre M. Perry

2020

A man bowls in a nearly empty bowling alley inside McCall's Tavern at Spanish Springs Town Square, amid coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in The Villages, Florida, U.S. March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Yana Paskova

Social Issues

Bowling with Trump

Mark Fabian, Robert Breunig, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Race in American Public Policy Videos

Three protesters embrace each other during a peaceful protest against police violence organized by the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in San Francisco, California December 24, 2014. An 18-year old black teen was fatally shot by police at a gas station late on Tuesday in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Up Front

Racial gaps in hope, ill-being, and deaths of despair

Carol Graham

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Patient Sharon Dawson Coates (L) has her knee examined by Dr. Nikhil Narang at University of Chicago Medicine Urgent Care Clinic in Chicago June 28, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION HEALTH)

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

There are clear, race-based inequalities in health insurance and health outcomes

Christen Linke Young

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

The Avenue

Discriminatory housing practices are leading to the devaluation of Black Americans

Andre M. Perry

Thursday, February 13, 2020

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Research

Policy 2020

Why we need reparations for Black Americans

Rashawn Ray and Andre M. Perry

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

SF downtown, 5th St. and Mission St. had only three pedestrians crossing at a light cycle during the Shelter in Place order on March 17, 2020 in San Francisco, Calif. Paul Kuroda/SIPA No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Demographics & Population

Even before coronavirus, census shows U.S. cities’ growth was stagnating

William H. Frey

Monday, April 6, 2020

Demographics & Population

Even as metropolitan areas diversify, white Americans still live in mostly white neighborhoods

William H. Frey

March 23, 2020

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Blog Posts

A woman holds a child as she walks past people waiting in line to receive testing during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Lott TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The Avenue

COVID-19 is turning the Midwest’s long legacy of segregation deadly

John C. Austin

Friday, April 17, 2020

A streetcar driver wears a mask amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

The Avenue

Mapping racial inequity amid COVID-19 underscores policy discriminations against Black Americans

Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger, and Carl Romer

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Shoppers browse in a supermarket while wearing masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in north St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. April 4, 2020. Picture taken April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

FixGov

How to reduce the racial gap in COVID-19 deaths

Rashawn Ray

Friday, April 10, 2020

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Events

2020

May

Past Event

Experts

Rashawn Ray

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

@SociologistRay

Andre M. Perry

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

@andreperryedu

William H. Frey

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Multimedia

Zacariah Randall, 4, dances to the music near one of the entertainment stages at the Clarissa Street Reunion at Corn Hill on Saturday afternoon in Rochester. The celebration that stretched down the neighborhood that was an early center of Rochester's African-American culture had three different stages of entertainment, food and vendors and went into the evening. (08/15/2009 - staff photo by Andrea Morales - Democrat and Chronicle)Clarissa Street Reunion

Podcast Episode

The case for reparations for Black Americans

Andre M. Perry, Rashawn Ray, and Fred Dews

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Health care workers test people at a drive-thru testing station run by the state health department, for people who suspect they have novel coronavirus, in Denver, Colorado, U.S. March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Podcast Episode

Why are Black Americans more likely to die from COVID-19?

Rashawn Ray and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Children & Families

Policies to improve family stability

Rashawn Ray

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

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Webinar: Valuing Black lives and property in America’s Black cities

Webinar: The impact of COVID-19 on prisons

Webinar: Reparations for Black Americans—Whether, why, and how?

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program