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Scientists Confirm All Black People Look Alike
Instead of curing deadly diseases like cancer, AIDS or racism, researchers at some of California’s top universities came together to explore one of the most mysterious subjects in the category of shit we already knew anyway—namely, that white people think all black people look the same. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a legitimate…
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Sterling K. Brown Partners With Bristol-Myers Squibb to Give Cancer Survivors a Community
First things first: Fuck Cancer. This disease has entered the lives of many and has taken loved ones away, but fortunately, all stories involving cancer don’t have an unfortunate ending. Sterling K. Brown has partnered with Bristol-Myers Squibb to tell survivors’ stories in a series designed to illuminate the triumphs and challenges of life after…
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New Study Finds Emergency Personnel Less Likely to Treat Pain for Black Patients Than White Ones
Racial disparities in health care are a well-documented phenomenon, spanning every area of medicine from the birthing room to the ICU. Now, a recent study shows yet another place black people are treated differently from nonblack patients: the back of an ambulance. In a study reported by NPR, researchers found emergency medical technicians and paramedics…
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White College Admissions Counselors Don't Want 'Woke' Black Students: Study
A new study reveals that black high school students who are actively fighting racism might have a harder time getting into colleges with white admissions counselors because … Wait? Did you even read the first part of that sentence? Ted Thornhill is a sociology professor at Florida Gulf Coast University whose research “examines color-blind ideology…
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Black Families Are 228 Years Away From Accumulating the Same Amount of Wealth as White Families
There’s still a long way to go to close the racial wealth gap—some 228 years, to be precise, according to a study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development and Institute for Policy Studies (pdf). According to the report, if the average black family’s wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past…
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Report: Race Relations in US Are Still Bad
Almost eight years after the election of the nation’s first black president, a new study finds that the racial divide between whites and blacks in America is still at Grand Canyon levels—which proves that a racially harmonious country remains an elusive dream that even the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have had trouble envisioning.…