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Making Mother's Day Special for All Expecting Mothers

Dr. Gail Christopher | Posted 05.11.2013 | Parents
Dr. Gail Christopher

For most mothers, many of the determining health factors are in play long before the pregnancy. Diet throughout life and the stress level throughout life have a strong bearing on whether the mother has a healthy pregnancy. This is why it's so critical that we have healthy communities.

Racial Bias And The School To Prison Pipeline

www.csmonitor.com | Posted 06.01.2013 | Black Voices

Two students set off fire alarms in the same school district. One of them, an African-American kindergartner, is suspended for five days; the other, a...

U.S. Probes Racial Disparities In How Schools Discipline Students

Reuters | Posted 05.07.2013 | Black Voices

By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE, March 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Education Department is investigating whether Seattle's public school district...

Fingering Federal Prosecutors for Racial Bias

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.28.2013 | Crime
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Their colleagues didn't agree, and Calhoun's conviction stood. But Sotomayor and Breyer's rage at the bias simply pointed up what's long been noted in far too many federal cases, and in the action and behavior of far too many federal prosecutors.

The Racial Dynamics of Standardized Tests

Ruzan Sarwar | Posted 01.02.2013 | New York
Ruzan Sarwar

If critics of standardized tests think it's lack of finances or lack of access to resources that prevents certain races from performing to the stated benchmarks, I want to put an end to that delusion.

Does Race or Gender Influence Professional Judgement?

Katy Welter | Posted 12.29.2012 | Chicago
Katy Welter

Does race or gender influence decision-making among members of the most respected professions? Several recent, high-profile studies conclude that, yes, even scientists, doctors, and judges are vulnerable to such unconscious bias.

Surprising Results In Poll On Racial Bias

AP | SONYA ROSS and JENNIFER AGIESTA | Posted 12.27.2012 | Black Voices

WASHINGTON — Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press...

NAACP Alleges Bias At Elite NYC High Schools

Reuters | Posted 11.26.2012 | Black Voices

* Complaint focuses on eight elite public schools * "All that matters is the test" By Jonathan Allen NEW ...

Dunkin' Faces Another Racial Bias Lawsuit

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.20.2012 | Business

America runs on Dunkin', and Dunkin' Donuts runs on allegedly discriminatory business decisions based solely on race and gender. That’s what a l...

What's in a Name?

Sam Sommers | Posted 09.15.2012 | Home
Sam Sommers

Names matter. Whenever we hear one, we draw a wide range of assumptions about the individual person (or item) in question. Just ask the fish merchant whose stroke of naming genius turned the undesirable Patagonian toothfish into the haute cuisine Chilean sea bass.

Shop Allegedly Only Wanted Workers With 'Blond Hair And Blue Eyes'

Reuters | Posted 09.11.2012 | Business

* Lawsuit claims discrimination is retailer's policy * Wet Seal worried over "brand image" -- lawsuit * Wet Sea says it ...

Major Airline Accused Of Workplace Discrimination

Reuters | Posted 07.29.2012 | Business

May 29 (Reuters) - Two dozen black pilots alleged in a lawsuit on Tuesday that United Continental Holdings, the parent of United Airlines, passed th...

Are Teachers Too Hard On Minority Students--Or Too Easy?

Posted 05.07.2012 | Science

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/05/2012 06:28 PM EDT on LiveScience Black and Latino students may be getting less critica...

Racism Study Yields Big Surprise About Bias In Babies

Posted 05.04.2012 | Science

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/04/2012 09:51 AM EDT on LiveScience Adults have more difficulty recognizing faces that ...

Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson

Are Doctors Shortchanging Black Patients? Racial Bias May Be To Blame, Report Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 05.03.2012 | Black Voices

The average time most doctors spend with their patients during each visit is just 20 minutes, according to 2009 estimates by the National Center for H...

Is the Man Who Killed Trayvon Martin a Racist? Who Cares?

Sam Sommers | Posted 05.27.2012 | Crime
Sam Sommers

Are racist (or sexist or homophobic) slurs any less impactful when the person who utters them genuinely believes he doesn't have a bigoted bone in his body?

GOP Effort To Repeal Racial Bias Law Dealt Blow

AP | GARY D. ROBERTSON | Posted 02.13.2012 | Politics

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's governor on Wednesday halted a Republican effort to dismantle a law that gives death row inmates a new way to a...

Will Guzzardi

New Data Shows Racial Bias Continues At State Police

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 09.12.2011 | Chicago

A new set of data from the University of Illinois at Chicago confirms a pattern of racial bias in traffic stops that has focused scrutiny on the Illin...

Has the Movement Opposing America's Drug War Broken Through to the Mainstream?

Jesse Levine | Posted 08.17.2011 | Politics
Jesse Levine

The 40th anniversary of the war on drugs became an opportunity for leaders from diverse backgrounds to emerge with the unified message that the drug war failed.

Will Guzzardi

State Police Accused Of 'Striking' Racial Bias In Traffic Stops

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 08.07.2011 | Chicago

The Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union petitioned the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, asking the department to investigate t...

Lucia Graves

Virgil Goode, Former GOP Congressman, Backs Rep. Steve King's Comments On Obama's 'Racial Preferences'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Rep. Steve King did not apologize for saying earlier this month that President Barack Obama "favors the black person," and now another GOP Congressman...

Felons In Prison Should Be Able To Vote In Washington State, Federal Judges Rule

AP | RACHEL LA CORTE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rig...

Racism, John McCain and Other Republicans

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Norm Stamper

In 1976, 30 of my 31 police officers confessed to on-the-job use of the most vile, invective, racist language you can imagine. How do we confront the barefaced bigotry we see today?