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All posts tagged "racial bias"
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980NewsGun Violence in South Outpaces Other Regions For Many Reasons
The mother left and two teens were alone in the house. It took the 13-year-old son 10 minutes to find the gun....
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1.2KNewsNew York City’s Gang Database Is 99% People of Color, Chief of Detectives Testifies
Ninety-nine percent. The number sent an audible gasp throughout the City Council chamber. Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea had just read...
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1.0KOpinionCollaboration, Training, Diverse Programs Help Us Work Against Racism Locally
As a passionate advocate for children and families to thrive and recognizing the barriers and violence created by racism, I’d like to...
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2.1KOpinionRacial Microaggressions on the College Campus: What Faculty Should Be Doing
Despite an increase in diversity training and sensitivity programs, the instances of racial microaggressions are on the rise. The college campus has...
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1.3KNewsBryan Stevenson’s Message to Youth Workers: Change Narrative for Kids
At the end of April, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute opened a striking museum and a memorial to 4,400 victims of lynching...
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1.7KFrom the BureausLos Angeles Housing Patterns That Reinforced Segregation Reverberate to This Day
Land remains the starkest turf of bigotry in American life. Blacks have been kept out, locked in, preyed upon and segregated by...
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895From the BureausAlton Sterling Decision Shreds Last Bit of Trust in Police, Community Says
It is easy to imagine that the scene Thursday afternoon in front of the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive...
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6.1KOpinionPittsburgh Misuses Big Data to Target Poor Children for Abuse Investigations
One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar. A firm known as Cambridge Analytica...
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5.0KOpinionPoor Kids End Up in Foster Care Because Parents Don’t Get Margin of Error Rich Do
Is this child neglect? A couple takes their two children, ages 14 and 11, with them on an old “waterlogged” boat, five...
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2.5KOpinionBlack Girls Pay the Price When Police Enter Schools
Sen. Marco Rubio sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week wrongly blaming the...
