It’s Fashion Week in New York City! And has been the case in years before, there are few black faces on the catwalks. Roland Martin…
Via Fox Baltimore After last year’s financial failure, Baltimore Grand Prix organizers on announced new sponsors to help defray the cost of this year’s event. Sponsors include Sunoco, Dr Pepper and Giant Food. More sponsorships are expected to be announced soon. Read full story here.
While nursing home admissions is on the rise for Black, Latino and Asian elders, admissions for white elders fell 10 percent causing some to ask is there white flight in nursing homes. See also: Americans ‘Very Concerned’ GOP Budget Will Force Elderly From Nursing Homes A new study published in Health Affairs, a journal on health […]
According to a new study conducted by researchers at Tufts University, Stanford University and the University of California, whether we perceive someone as Black or white depends on the clothes they are wearing. Participants of the experiment were asked to categorize computerized images of people with varying skin tones and clothing. The results show participants […]
(CAMBRIDGE-Scientific Computing) Years after slavery and Jim Crow laws, people of African and European heritage still consider themselves to be Black, according to a recent study. The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle […]
Almost seven months have passed since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. The destruction was massive; the financial costs are estimated at US$8-11 billion. In my work I receive daily reports from people who are either in Haiti working on the recovery effort or who have just returned from consultations, assessments, and […]
From Washingtonpost.com: After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
From HuffPost.com: Four students have sued Savannah State University on the grounds that they were denied promised athletic scholarships because of they are white.
From the AFP: WASHINGTON — Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it’s in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows.
