Positive and negative urgency reflect the tendency to engage in impulsive behaviors due to high positive and negative affect, respectively. Impulsive personality traits are associated with emotional psychopathology and substance use. However, previous studies were conducted with predominantly white or racially/ethnically mixed samples. In expanding this work to minority groups, we hypothesized that positive and negative urgency would positively correlate with psychopathological symptoms and alcohol use across samples of young-adult Asian, African, and Latinx American college students. We further hypothesized that the magnitudes of correlations between negative urgency and psychopathological symptoms would be larger than parallel correlations involving positive urgency in each racial/ethnic sample. Results were mostly consistent with hypotheses but also produced novel findings. Current findings suggest that psychological interventions which target different forms of urgency may help to improve mental health across a diversity of individuals.