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Instagram Users Warned, Food Photos Might Be Dubbed Racist
By Hannah Grace | Feb 25, 2017 08:20 AM ESTEating a specific dish might be casual for some, for the others it could be a direct link to their cultural heritage.
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Michigan Hospital Settles Race Lawsuit
By Jennifer Broderick | Feb 23, 2013 02:43 PM ESTA Michigan hospital, the Hurley Medical Center, has settled a lawsuit that accused it of agreeing to a swastika-tattooed man's request that no black nurses care for his newborn baby.
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Exercise for Weight Control More Effective for White Teen Girls than Black Peers: Study
By Denise Baker | Jun 07, 2012 01:40 PM EDTA new study has revealed that exercise for weight control is more likely to be effective on white teenage girls compared to their black peers. A research conducted in Britain studied more than 1,100 girls aged 12 and 14 and concluded that the bodies of white girls were more sensitive towards exercise compared to black girls. "Higher levels of physical activity were associated with lower risk of obesity among white girls but not among black girls," wrote study authors James White and Russ...
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Hiding Who You Are in the Workplace Could Decrease Job Satisfaction
By Jennifer Lee | Jun 04, 2012 06:41 PM EDTHiding your true social identity — race and ...
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Assertive Black Women Leaders Approved in the Workplace
By Jennifer Lee | Apr 20, 2012 12:41 AM EDTBlack women leaders are approved to be asservice in workplace, according to a new study.
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Race, Key Factor in Determining Suspension and Expulsion
By Jennifer Lee | Apr 14, 2012 12:28 AM EDTRace continues to be an important factor in determining who receives out-of-school suspension and expulsion, and that racial disparities in school discipline are most likely due more to school characteristics than to the characteristics of behaviors or students, according to a new study.
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African Americans More Likely to Blog than Whites and Latinos
By Staff Reporter | Apr 10, 2012 05:56 PM EDTThe blogging community is more racially diverse than one might think. Internet-connected African Americans are more likely to blog than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on the Racial Gap in Life Expectancy
By Jennifer Lee | Apr 06, 2012 04:41 PM EDTDifferences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according to one of the first studies to put a number on how much of the divide can be attributed to disparities in socioeconomic characteristics.
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Housemaid's Suicide Rattles Lebanon's Conscience
By Oliver Holmes | Apr 06, 2012 01:17 PM EDTTragic tales of domestic worker abuse in Lebanon are common, but a film showing an Ethiopian maid dragged along a street in Beirut just days before she was found hanged from her bed sheets has rattled Lebanon's conscience.
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U.S. Police Detective Says Racism 'Alive and Well'
By Tom Brown | Mar 30, 2012 01:30 PM EDTA black veteran U.S. police officer said "racism is alive and well" in the United States and is evident in the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager gunned down by a neighborhood watch volunteer in central Florida last month.
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Expectations, Exhaustion Can Lead Mothers to Post-Adoption Stress
By Staff Reporter | Mar 25, 2012 10:34 AM EDTFatigue and unrealistic expectations of parenthood may help ...
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Bilingual Immigrants Are Healthier
By Jennifer Lee | Mar 20, 2012 11:43 PM EDTA new study found that bilingual immigrants are healthier than their unilingual counterparts.
