The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

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For whose violence, Goffe asks, do they serve as a scapegoat? Aiming to center Black and Indigenous history and ecology, “Dark Laboratory” is a pointed response to the dominance of scientific ...

A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: How Black Holes Came In From the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage, by Marcus Chown When writing about the complexities of our universe, the astronomer turned author Marcus ...