Studies show that minority patients generally receive a lower quality of health care compared to white patients. How can these disparities be reduced? A supplement to the October 2007 issue of Medical Care Research and Review, published by SAGE, thoroughly explores the effectiveness of health care interventions to answer that question.

A US judge has ordered the release of one of the six black teenagers whose arrest in Louisiana sparked a protest over perceived racial discrimination in the US judicial system.

New research by political scientists examines the significance of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) for the political representation of people of color and documents “a substantial relationship between the VRA and the election of nonwhite officials at the national, state, and local levels.”

In a new resolution, the Council of Europe paints a grim picture of the situation facing Russia's 160-plus national minorities. The current resolution , adopted May 2 by the council's executive arm, the Committee of Ministers, says the country has not done enough to implement existing federal legislation on minority protection.