Why is San Francisco the state’s worst county for black student achievement?

By | October 30th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Parents from San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood gathered around school cafeteria tables and listened as administrators delivered a hopeful message: Their children, who all attend Charles R. Drew Preparatory Academy, one of the city’s few schools serving mostly black students, were already on track to do better on next year’s state tests.

But the staff didn’t tell

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Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace

By | October 27th, 2017|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

ProPublica spent weeks examining one distinctive group at the center of the violence in Charlottesville: an organization called the Rise Above Movement, one of whose members was the white man dispensing beatings near Emancipation Park Aug. 12.

The group, based in Southern California, claims more than 50 members and a singular purpose: physically attacking its ideological

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The quiet crisis among African Americans: Pregnancy and childbirth are killing women at inexplicable rates

By | October 26th, 2017|Health|

Three weeks after Cassaundra Lynn Perkins gave birth to premature twins, she returned to the hospital, feeling unwell. She phoned her mother from her hospital bed at 3:30 in the morning.

“I’m just not feeling good,” she said.

Surely it was just another bout of the mysterious illness her daughter had been suffering from for most

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New Graduation Requirement: Patriotism

By | October 26th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Quick quiz: Where is Omaha Beach?

If your answer was Normandy, France, the site of the D-Day landings, you’re correct. But Jerry Davis is worried that kids these days might wager Nebraska.

That’s why the College of the Ozarks, where Davis is president, has launched a new required course for freshmen — dubbed Patriotic Education and Fitness

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Top public universities are shutting out poor students, report says

By | October 26th, 2017|Education|

Graduating from a selective college can help low-income students climbthe economic ladder, but many of the nation’s top public universities are turning their backs on the group.

Since the late 1990s, almost two-thirds of selective public universities have reduced the share of students they enroll who come from families earning less than $37,000 a year, according to a report released Thursday

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Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

By | October 25th, 2017|Intergroup Relations|

A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it,” said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of

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Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

By | October 25th, 2017|Intergroup Relations|

Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people’s daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The poll asked a wide range of questions about where Americans

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How Black Americans See Discrimination

By | October 25th, 2017|Intergroup Relations|

One of the paradoxes of racial discrimination is the way it can remain obscured even to the people to whom it’s happening. Here is an example: In an ambitious, novel studyconducted by the Urban Institute a few years ago, researchers sent actors with similar financial credentials to the same real estate or rental offices

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