Tag: Racism
Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting...
April Thames, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Negative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health...
Facial analysis AI is being used in job interviews – it...
Ivan Manokha, University of Oxford
Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is becoming commonplace in job interviews. The technology, developed by US company HireVue, analyses...
How indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling
Nell Haynes, Georgetown University
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold.
And even then, they’ve done...
Mass shootings aren’t growing more common – and evidence contradicts common...
Christopher J. Ferguson, Stetson University
When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12...
Why Trump’s stoking of white racial resentment is effective – but...
Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Eric Hoyt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Many white men say they feel threatened by the increasing presence...
A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South
Jordan Brasher, University of Tennessee and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
An estimated 114 Confederate symbols have been removed from public view since 2015....
Convicts are returning to farming – anti-immigrant policies are the reason
Stian Rice, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow.
Convict leasing for agriculture...
How dogs help keep multiracial neighborhoods socially segregated
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, University of Massachusetts Boston
Cities in the United States are getting less segregated and, according to a recent national survey, most Americans value...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
