By Arthur Allen, California Healthline OAKLAND, Calif. — The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well above the 88%…
By Wenfei Xu, Cornell University; David Levinson, University of Sydney; Michael J Smart, Rutgers University, and Nebiyou Yonas Tilahun, University of Illinois Chicago Traffic stops by Chicago police have more…
By Seanna Leath, Washington University in St. Louis and Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Washington University in St. Louis A decade ago, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed Black 18-year-old, was shot and…
By Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University and Natasha N. Johnson, Georgia State University Police unions have come under fire following recent police killings of Black Americans. For the most…
The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct ruled a judge should be removed after she was caught on camera arguing and hurling profanity at a group of Black teens at…
By Nao Hagiwara, University of Virginia and Tiffany Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison There is increasing evidence that implicit bias – non-conscious attitudes toward specific groups – is a source of…
By Jeffrey C. Sun, University of Louisville and Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton The fate of hundred of millions of dollars in scholarship money is up in the air…
By Hao Peng, Northwestern University When one Chinese national recently petitioned the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become a permanent resident, he thought his chances were pretty good. As…
ATLANTA -- Following a federal judge's ruling of unconstitutional discrimination, the Georgia state Senate approved a bill on Wednesday to redraw school board districts in Georgia’s second-largest school system. "Georgia…
By Angus Kittelman, University of Missouri-Columbia; David Markowitz, Michigan State University; Kent McIntosh, University of Oregon, and Maria Reina Santiago-Rosario, University of Oregon The Research Brief is a short take…
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