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Why Are Black Students Punished More? A New Study Offers A Reason
A new study has highlighted the complicated relationship between racial bias and education. Several educators have implicit biases against students of color because of their faces and behaviors, according to research recently published in the journal Contemporary...
Less than 20% of apartments are affordable for middle-income black renters
In cities like New York and Miami, some residents could afford 5% or fewer rentals Millions of Americans rent because they can’t afford to buy. And many of those people struggle to pay the rent, new research suggests, more so if they are African-American or Hispanic....
Trump signs bill to upgrade Martin Luther King’s birthplace to national historic park
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed a bill Monday to expand the Rev. Martin Luther King's birthplace in Atlanta into a national historical park — the first such park in Georgia. Trump signed Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2017 aboard Air Force...
Black jobless rate is historically low, report says, but decades-old disparities persist
The black unemployment rate is near a historic low, according to a recent report from a Washington, D.C. think tank. The analysis, by two economists at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, also found that the nation's black unemployment rate fell faster than...
‘Black genocide’: Pastors confront NAACP on abortion issue
The NAACP is leading African-Americans astray on the abortion issue, the largest African-American pro-life group in the U.S. says. Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., assistant to the national director of the Life Education and Resource Network, said nearly 1,800 black...
Undoing racism, segregation through school choice
A new report from the Center for American Progress perpetuates the misguided notion that today’s school choice programs are synonymous with Jim Crow-era efforts to resist desegregation by providing white students with vouchers to attend private schools. To be sure, we...
Consumption of alcohol and marijuana associated with lower GPA in college
College students who consume medium-to-high levels of alcohol and marijuana have a consistently lower GPA, according to a study published March 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Shashwath Meda from Hartford Hospital/Institute of Living, USA, and...