How social networks help perpetuate the cycle of segregation
Think about the last time you looked for a new apartment or house.
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2018
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Researchers find places, not just people, are targets of racial bias
New research shows that racial biases affect more than how we treat individual black people. Biases also lead us to devalue black homes and neighborhoods, and to subject them to potential health hazards. The studies further ...
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2016
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FCC complaint: Baltimore police phone trackers disrupt calls
Civil rights groups filed a federal complaint against the Baltimore Police Department's use of a portable technology that mimics cell towers to locate suspects and their cell phones.
Security
Aug 17, 2016
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Racially diverse US neighborhoods undergoing re-segregation
Racially segregated neighborhoods in the United States persist for many social and economic reasons. Yet new research shows that many racially diverse neighborhoods—seemingly a sign of progress in racial equality - are, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2016
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Study finds blacks and Hispanics typically need higher incomes than whites to live in affluent neighborhoods
Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education have found that black and Hispanic families effectively need much higher incomes than white families to live in comparably affluent neighborhoods.
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2015
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Study: Residential segregation still a problem in US
Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these types of communities, according to a new study in the June issue of the American ...
Social Sciences
May 31, 2012
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Rogue Black Holes May Roam the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian ...
Astronomy
Apr 29, 2009
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