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09-17-2024 5:04 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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In a working paper, Gyesi interviewed 13 African immigrant students in Iowa high schools who come from different cultures and speak different languages. She found that many of them take advanced courses in high school and aspire to go to four-year colleges, busting what research has shown to be stereotypes about African students as academically unmotivated or likely to fail.
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A Healthy Start pamphlet (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
Federal, state and local governments are all trying to reduce maternal mortality rates across the United States and eliminate racial disparities. The federal Healthy Start program funds more than 100 local projects that coordinate care for pregnant women and help meet social needs. California halved its maternal mortality rate through an organization that shares the best ways to treat common causes of maternal death.
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Recent research suggests that conservative critiques of DEI often boil down to one thing: anti-Black racism.
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Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (AP Photo/Tran Nguyen)
None of the bills would provide widespread direct payments to African Americans. The approved proposals allow for the return of land or compensation to families whose property was unjustly seized by the government, and issuing a formal apology for laws and practices that have harmed Black people.
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Kamala Harris speaks at her alma mater, Howard University(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is well known for producing luminaries like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and author Toni Morrison. Now its students and alumni are turning attention to the person who could become their most famous graduate: Vice President Kamala Harris. If Harris wins the White House, she would be the first woman elected president and the first graduate of a historically Black college to hold that office.
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Artificial intelligence will allow employers to automate functions long performed by human workers but instead of being a job killer AI might be more like major technological breakthroughs of the past — the steam engine, electricity, the Internet: eliminating some jobs while creating others and increasing productivity READ MORE
Minority athletes don’t just bear their countries’ hopes for gold at the Olympics and Paralympics. They also represent their identities and culture. Yet social scientists say prejudice can be reduced through positive images of athletes
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People denied church burials were interred in the cemetery for more than 120 years until the late 19th century. The cemetery was covered over by a lumberyard as the city by the Hudson River grew. Archaeological excavations over the last three summers have located the remains of up to 27 people. Now money is being raised to turn the urban backyard into a respectful resting place. Advocates hope DNA and other tests will provide information on those buried there and possibly identify descendants.
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The report also highlights that Black Americans are particularly likely to perceive local crime news as biased, especially in terms of racial and ethnic fairness. This perception aligns with previous Pew Research findings that have shown Black Americans to be more attuned to racial bias in both policing and news coverage. Black Americans are also more engaged with local crime news, with 45% reporting that they often get news about local crime—a higher rate than that of Hispanic, white, or Asian Americans.
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Zaire Byrd (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely to receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions and being transferred to alternative schools. A decade ago, those gaps became the target of a newly energized reform movement spurred by the same reckoning that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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