Sentences with phrase «about racial bias»

The appellant raised concerns about racial bias both before and during the jury selection, but his lawyer nonetheless failed to tell Fraser that he had the right to challenge for cause.

A case about racial bias in the jury room would seem to have all the makings of a provocative and headline - grabbing decision.

Since Ferguson, 24 states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer - worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

Let's use Starbucks as an example: The chain said Tuesday it planned to close 8,000 company - owned stores in the U.S. for one afternoon to educate employees about racial bias.

Not exact matches

I don't know how much Starbucks can do about employees» racial biases in one day of training, but by providing clear - cut, companywide policies on restrooms and customer ejections and posting them in its stores, it will give its employees fewer chances to act on whatever biases they have.

Quotes Paul Argenti in an article about Starbucks» decision to close all company - owned stores for «racial bias» training following the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.

The sheer comprehensiveness of his political error recalls the old joke about the bigot who denies any specific form of racial or ethnic bias.

Starbucks has since apologized for the incident and announced that it plans to close all 8,000 of it's U.S. stores for implicit racial bias training, which is both appropriate and proves that this is about something much larger than one isolated incident: this is about the ubiquitous, cultural fear of black people.

Harvard University research shows that children can begin to harbor negative racial biases as early as 3 years old, thus caregivers should consider being intentional about teaching values like equity and inclusion early in life.

And a New York Times report about rampant racial bias in New York State's parole system led Cuomo to launch an investigation, but no findings have been made public and the parole system is unchanged.

We can use it to think about ways to target this heart - brain communication to reduce the tragedies caused by racial bias.»

So, while everyone else continues to moan about Oscar racial bias while simultaneously butchering Alejandro González Iñárritu's name, join us as we look forward to what should be a spectacular year in film.

And this program's essential goal is to help these young men, some from troubled backgrounds and all daily facing racial biases about black males, get in touch with the gold within them, their inner strengths, and, in their own ways, become heroes.

Some attribute that percentage to historically rooted racial bias about public schools.

We further examine whether such disagreements are related to the racial match between students and teachers, which would suggest that at least a subset of teachers have systematically biased beliefs about students» educational potential.

The stark racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions raise real concerns about bias and discrimination.

Before seeking out knowledge about the cultures of the diverse students that they will be teaching, educators must first investigate their own heritage, upbringing, and potential cultural and racial biases.

However, he said, «This is a very difficult time to talk about race,» adding that racism and racial bias sometimes do not «explain the entirety» of an issue.

Creating awareness about biases, and responding in ways that honor the culture of the student population, hold great promise to improve racial equity.

Students answered questions about their level of trust in their school and whether they perceived racial and ethnic biases in their school's policies and practices.

I'll tell you what's wrong with it — in the former case, we're talking about a real and alarming trend reflecting implicit racial bias, whereas in the latter («killing spree») case, we're talking about a one - off.

Usually, when people outside of the legal profession talk about the legal system being imperfect, it is about a criminal justice system that is so suffused with racial bias as to be untenable.

Justices voted 5 - 1 to leave intact a requirement that lawyers educate themselves about how to eliminate racial and ethnic bias.

One can speculate about the role of racial bias and stereotypes in the jury's reasoning, and whether it simply refused to apply the law, preferring instead the position that killing is justified when people come on your property and make you afraid — i.e., that they refused to apply the law not as the conscience of their community, but because they disagreed with applying it here.

«By repeatedly referring to me as a man despite being corrected by both the landlord's representative and myself, and with her offensive remark about my hair as a rationale for calling me a man, the judge clearly showed her racial and transphobic bias,» added Ms. Sojourner.

Our submission provided information about racial profiling and how to identify it; explained (1) why the OPP's DNA collection from migrant workers appeared to be consistent with racial profiling, and (2) how police DNA collection may disproportionately affect racialized and marginalized groups; and made recommendations on how the OPP can address racial bias in its policing.

Isn't that the bias that we fought about on racial terms, or on terms of sex, or on terms of religion, etc.?

They also measured their implicit racial bias using the Black - White Implicit Association Test, which gauges unconscious attitudes about race that people may be unaware of or unwilling to report, and which shows that about 50 per cent of black Americans hold anti-black bias.