I still remember my tears from high school. Sometimes, even though it is decades later, they still come out on my pillow. I cringe as I think about the pain so many young people are experiencing today, often with many fewer safe-places and outlets to mitigate the abuse. “As the social life of young people has moved…
A hard, insightful look at systemic racism in faculty hiring
“This important book addresses one of the most critical issues in faculty hiring at colleges and universities: systemic racism. (You can purchase it here, from Princeton University Press:https://bit.ly/3uBiZpF)Even while institutions increasingly talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, they often overlook the processes where implicit and overt bias, marginalizing practices, and outdated understandings of academic work…
A Michigan police chief has apologized after it emerged that the department used images of Black men during target practice
Concerns about the images were initially raised in April, after a Boy Scout troop toured the building used for target practice by the Farmington Hills Police Department, according to CNN affiliate WXYZ. A photo taken by an unidentified individual on the tour shows at least three hanging targets of Black men holding weapons and a group…
As Inflation Soars, Black Americans Bear The Brunt Of Rising Grocery, Gas And Housing Prices – The Seattle Medium
“I’m just worried about quality of life,” said Johnson, 33. “You already have nerves about being a new parent. And then you have the whole economic downturn possibly coming and it can create some anxiety.” Like many Black families, Johnson and her husband are bearing the brunt of inflation — with prices rising to the…
Why the ‘Essential Labor’ of raising kids is to lonely and expensive : Shots – Health News : NPR
During the pandemic, when schools and day care facilities shut down abruptly, millions of parents — especially mothers — dropped out of the workforce to pick up the slack. Author Angela Garbes was one of them. Read the full story.
Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring
While colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty. In 2017, of the nation’s full-time, tenure-track and tenured faculty, only 3 percent each were Black men, Black women, Hispanic men, and Hispanic women. Only 6 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander men,…
The AI That Draws What You Type Is Very Racist, Shocking No One
Machine learning systems almost universally exhibit bias against women and people of color, and DALL-E is no different. In the project’s documentation on GitHub, OpenAI admits that “models like DALL·E 2 could be used to generate a wide range of deceptive and otherwise harmful content” and that the system “inherits various biases from its training data,…
‘No different than the mortgage crisis’: NAACP President Derrick Johnson on why student loan cancellation is needed
Derrick Johnson: The No. 1 wealth driver in this country is homeownership, but you can’t qualify for a home if your debt-to-income ratio is too high, and the No. 1 debt for African Americans right now is student loans. As a result, there are no paths forward to closing the racial wealth gap without first addressing…
The federal government is offering $10bn to small businesses – here’s how to apply | US small business
Certain funds are targeted specifically to minority-owned businesses or businesses located in low- to moderate-income areas. But just about any business can apply for these funds, even non-profits. Read more.
FREE Online Event: Who Gets To Be An American?
Being an American doesn’t always mean being treated like one when it comes to the rights and liberties that every citizen is supposed to have, and this is especially the case when it comes to people of color. Register for this FREE event:https://bit.ly/3xdELSo Since 9/11, Muslim communities have been unjustly viewed as inherently suspicious and…
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