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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...

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...

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 force...

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...

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....

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...

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 new...

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...

By Jeff Nesbit We clearly have a problem in America. When almost 90 percent of white people in America who take the Implicit Association Test show an inherent racial bias for white people versus black people, that means something. When young,...

Dr. Martin Luther King reminded allies for justice that “the arc of history is long, but it always bends toward justice.”  These words were perhaps never more important than they are today.  As we remember Dr. King today, let us plan...