Convictions remain rare for police accused of sexual assault
Over the past few years, social movements from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter have raised awareness of sexual violence, police brutality and systemic racism.
Over the past few years, social movements from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter have raised awareness of sexual violence, police brutality and systemic racism.
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Dec 8, 2022
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The most recent shooting involving a Toronto high school student this October highlighted a rising problem with gun violence in North American schools. In Canada's largest city, it raised alarms about how the crisis is getting ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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White Americans who think that White people are poor are more likely to believe that welfare recipients are hardworking, and to support welfare policies, according to new research in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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Stewart Coles is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also is the co-author of a recent study that examined political polarization in the context of social media users' support for ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a heightened awareness of ethnic inequality in the UK. Despite some recent studies on housing conditions in the context of the pandemic, little attention has ...
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Dec 3, 2022
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Social media sites that show a white person sharing a message about racial justice are more likely to convince other white people of the benefits of the cause, but they also limit the visibility of Black activists.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2022
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A new report, authored by Heriot-Watt University, found that in England the highest levels of homelessness risks are experienced by people from Black and minoritised ethnic backgrounds.
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2022
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A recent disclosure from Harvard's Peabody Museum has brought attention, yet again, to the need to rethink the relationships between universities and Indigenous communities.
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional coffins in unmarked graves in the city's Oaklawn Cemetery, officials said.
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2022
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The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were marked by far higher death rates among Black people than white people in the United States. Before 2020 ended, however, differences between the two groups had nearly equalized.
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Oct 31, 2022
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