An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer (31 percent) see negative effects in their own communities New York, NY, ...

As a teenager, Tim Luna thought he’d end up working in his mother’s taco shop or doing odd jobs around his small town in rural Texas. His family and teachers urged him to aim higher. Luna took college ...

Cesiah Gonzalez had thought about joining the Marines, but in her sophomore year of high school in Albuquerque, she tried a paid internship as a medical assistant in a family health clinic. She ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides support for high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. The anticipated result of each fellowship is the publication of a book or major ...

Dumarsais Simeus is an entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for Simeus Foods International, one of the largest black-owned food-product concerns in the U.S. Starting his career as an electrical ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...

David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father. Byrne’s parents decided to leave for Canada because of the employment opportunities, and to escape the family ...

Cristeta Comerford is the White House's executive chef, the first ethnic minority to serve in that position. She arrived at the White House as an assistant chef during the Clinton Administration, but ...

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American national politics. But is the same true for local government? A new survey, conducted by the nonprofit organization CivicPulse and ...

Leana Wen’s family immigrated to the United States when she was just seven years old. Her father was a dissident, and the family was granted political asylum following the crackdown in Tiananmen ...

Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates a group of remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our nation and our democracy through ...