Depression impacts approximately 33% of stroke patients in the United States and is often the result of poor functional outcomes/disability after this neurological event. While research has shown that depression is common following stroke, fewer studies have investigated racial disparities in the prevalence of depression and disease burden in Black and White patients. Further, previous research investigating the racial disparities in behavioral outcomes in stroke patients, have not controlled for lesion volume, gender and education levels. Thus, for this current study we used an independent t-test to compare the mean scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) in 80 Black and 42White patients (N=122) recruited through Washington University, 3 months after stroke event. Supplemental analysis was also run to account for variables such as lesion volume, gender and education. The results indicated that there were no significant differences between depression and functional outcomes in Black and White patients within our sample. A linear regression model was run to determine whether there was an association between FIM and GDS scores. The results indicated that higher FIM scores were associated with lower GDS scores and vice versa. Overall, our findings indicate that Black and White stroke patients exhibit similar levels of depression and functional outcomes which were not influenced by demographic attributes. Consistent with previous findings, patients that experience more disability after stroke tend to have higher levels of depression.