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How Segregated Schools Built Segregated Cities
by Emily Lieb More than six decades after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, increasing numbers of black children in the U.S. attend what researchers call “apartheid schools” where students of color comprise more than 99 percent of...
Did You Know Black Ghettos Were Deliberately Created By Gov’t Sponsored Redlining?
By A.C. Jemison In light of Dr. Ben Carson’s nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the commencement of the Trump Administration, there is no better time than now to discuss the creation of the “black ghetto” and...
Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
In 1997, a few hundred people who responded to a job posting in a Pittsburgh newspaper agreed to let researchers spray their nostrils with a rhinovirus known to cause the common cold. The people would then be quarantined in hotel rooms for five days...
Five key trends in U.S. student performance
By Martin Carnoy and Emma García Progress by blacks and Hispanics, the takeoff of Asians, the stall of non-English speakers, the persistence of socioeconomic gaps, and the damaging effect of highly segregated schools In 15 years of increasing...
Redlining suit against Chaska’s KleinBank tests limits of bias laws
By Jeffrey Meitrodt, Star Tribune A discrimination lawsuit the U.S. Department of Justice recently filed against a family-owned community bank in the Twin Cities’ western suburbs could become the first test of the government’s ability to...
Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
Teaching Tolerance - Number 55: Spring 2017 This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children...
Our Cynicism Will Not Build A Movement. Collaboration Will.
by Alicia Garza I’ve been grappling with how to challenge cynicism in a moment that requires all of us to show up differently. On Saturday, I joined more than a million women in Washington, D.C., to register my opposition to the new regime....
Racial Diversity: There’s More Work to be Done in the Workplace
By Terri Williams Racial diversity in the workplace – from recruiting to hiring to promoting people of color – continues to move at an unimpressive pace. And if LinkedIn’s annual workplace diversity report is any indication, the needle is...
Black men nearly 3 times as likely to die from police use of force, study says
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) - Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016. Now, as the year comes to an end, a...
Where you live can have a lot to say about your health
By Michael Ollove By many measures, Hawaii is one of the healthiest states in the union. Yet only Mississippi has a higher rate of flu or pneumonia deaths than the Aloha State. West Virginia, usually among the bottom dwellers in state health...