A guest-edited collection of features, comment and analysis examines researchers' experiences of racism, the impacts of systemic racism and how science can and must change.

The research funder's admission has been largely welcomed, but experts say many institutions need to do much more to implement anti-racism pledges.

Racism is "pervasive" in chemical sciences, according to an investigation by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

With a push from students and alumni, the university faced up to a legacy of support for eugenics. As it renames buildings and programmes, can its story serve as a model for others?

Racist ideas of categories for human identity continue to warp research and medicine.

A specialist in diversity and inclusion lays out the science funder's plan for promoting equity.

Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory, continuing the growing charge by Republican lawmakers against schools teaching about systemic racism.

Six years after a statue of Cecil Rhodes was toppled, students and staff at the South African university are still working to improve equity and representation.

Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

After a staff member dismissed racism as a problem in medicine on a podcast, a petition signed by thousands demanded a review of editorial processes at the journal.

The American Physical Society's new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.

For many years and increasingly in the last year, the JAMA Network journals have published many important articles addressing disparities and racism in medical education, research, and health care and highlighting initiatives to help address deep-rooted inequities.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's six-figure donation is a step towards addressing racial injustice in the sciences.

Black workers at universities are among the most vulnerable people on campuses. But they often are left out of conversations about racial justice.

Activists praise the actions, but now seek deeper cultural change.

Study would seek to identify effects of bias and how to promote equity.

Black scientists are embracing the hashtag movement that forced the nation to take a hard look at systemic racism.