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May 29

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Our everyday assumptions can hurt others. Here’s what it takes to change your thinking

More than 8,000 Starbucks stores closed down Tuesday so that more than 180,000 employees could get anti-bias training aimed at reducing discrimination and unconscious stereotypes. How much can education help us overcome implicit bias? Yamiche Alcindor reports and Judy Woodruff…

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May 09

Watch 8:24
The stark, chaotic power of Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’

Infectious in beat, jarring in violence and imagery, Donald Glover's new music video "This Is America" touches on painful racial history and our contemporary culture of mass entertainment and murder. Jeffrey Brown talks with Rolling Stone contributor Tre Johnson about…

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May 02

Black men arrested at Starbucks settle for $200K program

By Errin Haines, Associated Press

Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything have settled with the city for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.

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Apr 18

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Why are black mothers and infants far more likely to die in U.S. from pregnancy-related causes?

By PBS NewsHour

The U.S. has a problem with maternal mortality, especially for women of color. Black infants are more than twice as likely to die as white infants; black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes…

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Mar 23

Sympathy for white Austin bomber stirs debate about race

By Deepti Hajela, Associated Press

For many observers and activists, public comments about Mark Anthony Conditt were just the latest example in which a white suspect seemed to receive an injection of humanity that is less often extended to blacks, Muslims and others.

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Mar 05

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When someone does not expect greatness from you, here’s what to tell yourself

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What does it do to black girls and women to have their intelligence and abilities routinely questioned? A study from Johns Hopkins found that white teachers set lower academic expectations for their black students than black teachers do. Acclaimed writer…

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Feb 28

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‘Plague of inequality’ haunts U.S. 50 years after a landmark study on racial division

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This weeks marks the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission, a bipartisan assessment of race in America that revealed the nation to be both separate and unequal. A half century later, a new report takes stock of what we’ve begun…

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Feb 26

This poet imagines black victims of police violence ‘alive someplace better’

By Jennifer Hijazi

Danez Smith sees another life for the black victims of police violence: at last living in a world where blackness is celebrated and “everything/is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun.”…

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Feb 19

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How a legal loophole benefits neighborhood newcomers while leaving longtime residents behind

By PBS NewsHour

Since banks constricted credit after the 2008 housing bust, they have been slowly increasing the amount they’re lending. But this economic prosperity has not reached everyone. Watch part two of a two-part series by Aaron Glantz of Reveal.

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Feb 16

Watch 5:19
In ‘Black Panther,’ an African superhero shatters the Hollywood status quo

"Black Panther" isn't just a big-budget action movie getting rave reviews; it's a full-fledged cultural phenomenon. Unlike other movies in the Marvel universe, it has an African superhero, a majority-black cast and an African-American director. Jeffrey Brown reports on the…

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