A better educated black applicant would pass the exam as the same rate as his white, suburban counterpart. (nystateofpolitics.com)
► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday. (sciencemag.org)
For black applicants, fighting fires has got to be a hell of alot better than dodging IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. (nystateofpolitics.com)