Nearly 100 years before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic would unleash a wave of anti-Asian bias, a smaller but similar prejudice rippled across the U-M campus. It started with the 19th annual production of the Michigan Union Opera’s musical comedy, ‘Tickled to Death.’

The U-M community is invited to provide feedback on the recommendation by the President’s Advisory Committee on University History to remove Fielding H. Yost’s name from Yost Ice Arena.

White researchers are nearly twice as likely to be awarded a grant than Black scientists of similar academic achievement. Now, a group of biomedical engineering leaders is calling on NIH and other funding agencies to address the stark disparity.

U-M’s Chief Diversity Officer Robert Sellers moderated a virtual town hall about combating racism through daily activities, relationships, and challenging conversations.

An African-American student of the 1920s left a vivid memoir of his years in a semi-segregated Ann Arbor.

Lyman T. Johnson, MA ’33, was the grandson of former slaves. He integrated the University of Kentucky five years before Brown v. Board of Education.

Frank Beaver examines the long political reach of “The Birth of a Nation.”