Sentences with phrase «by racial bias»

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

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

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality...

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families.

Not exact matches

Starbucks chief executive Kevin Johnson posted a long apology statement on the company's website, followed by the announcement that Starbucks would close 8,000 stores on May 29 for a day of racial - bias training.

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.

According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.

Black and Hispanic religious conservatives will expect their white allies to address issues too often seen as «Democratic» by their constituencies — such as racial bias in sentencing.

cards» used to get around the inconvenience of reality by saying: the legisation was written with gender or racial bias as its «true agenda» — or, argue that homebirth is protected and not subject to legislation or government oversight because it is the religious belief of the mother that «God hath so commanded me.»

More recently, Paterson went on a rant that racial bias was behind his negative coverage and claimed that Obama was the next target, a charge refuted by Obama's press secretary.

De Blasio called for not only the inspector general position to be created, but for the veto of a bill banning racial bias by the police department to be overridden by the council.

«Recently, the Syracuse City School District was taken to task by the attorney general for, apparently, racial bias in suspensions,» DeFrancisco said.

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

If Gould was right and Morton had mismeasured some skulls because of racial bias, we would expect the mismeasured crania to be non-randomly distributed by population: Morton's overestimates would be concentrated on the crania of «white» people, while his underestimates would be mostly «non-white».

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

Richeson, who is now at Northwestern University, thus concluded that color - blind policies might backfire, generating more racial tension by stoking rather than lessening implicit bias.

According to FBI data, almost two - thirds of reported hate crimes arose from racial bias, making it by far the most typical form of bias - motivated crime in the U.S.

Now, another research group has examined the possible role of racial bias at NIH by comparing head - to - head the productivity and funding of black and white medical researchers at the same institutions.

Now an international team of researchers suggests that one way to reduce racial bias in young children is by teaching them to distinguish among faces of a different race.

July 19, 2013 • New research suggests that racial disparities and other biased outcomes in medicine, the criminal justice system, and other areas, can be explained by unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

By the same token they find that the political manipulations where it concerns the stimulation of racial, religious and gender biases, are not matters they choose to be overly concerned with and more inter-racial, and inter-religious partnerships / marriages are being embarked on.

More importantly, given that rates of suspensions can be as high in mostly - black schools run by black principals (and overseen by superintendents), it's hard to argue whether the problem is one of racial bigotry (as implied by Duncan in his announcement), a matter of class bias (just as likely), or haphazard school and district policies.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

The guidelines state that «[r] acially diverse schools provide incalculable educational and civic benefits by promoting cross-racial understanding, breaking down racial and other stereotypes, and eliminating bias and prejudice.»

In this project, we seek to understand minority and female underrepresentation in advanced STEM courses in high school by investigating whether school counselors exhibit racial or gender bias during the course assignment process.

Another popular reform, backed by teachers unions and civil - rights groups, aims to train educators on ways to overcome any racial biases they may harbor.

Those that reflect actual student knowledge and learning, not just test taking skills; are educational in and of themselves; are free of gender, class and racial bias; are differentiated to meet students» needs; allow opportunities to go back and improve; and undergo regular evaluation and revision by educators.

Disparities in disciplinary practices can reinforce a negative cycle, where students who perceive racial and ethnic bias are less likely to trust their schools and become more likely to be disciplined by school staff.

A recent study by Mindset Scholars David Yeager and Geoff Cohen, along with their colleagues Valerie Purdie - Vaughns and Sophia Yang - Hooper, explores how students» levels of trust in their schools evolves over time, and examines the impact of ethnic and racial biases on trust.

The exhibition coincides with other shows and events that can be seen as augmenting its perspective by giving additional visibility to AIDS - affected individuals and communities that have been neglected due to racial, gender, or institutional bias.

The three artists underscore the limited ability of rational systems such as those promoted by Internationalist artists and architects to undo entrenched social and racial biases, pointing to how such methods may instead reinforce discrimination by cloaking it in objectivity.

The New York Times article by Linda Villarosa reveals a crisis situation: «Black mothers and infants are dying at a higher rate than white mothers and infants, in large part because of societal racism and racial bias in the healthcare system.»

As such, they were «entirely congruent» with the complaint of institutional bias the Registrant sought to have heard by the Committee, which was essentially a complaint of systemic discrimination because of racial origin.

For example, the BC Court of Appeal found that while a disciplinary panel of the BC Veterinary Medical Association (now the College of Veterinarians of BC) had jurisdiction to address asserted racial discrimination by the panel as a matter of bias, the tribunal could decline to address that issue as it was already before the Human Rights Tribunal.

They said that the trial judge erred in not asking the Crown to address the relevance of referring to her as a prostitute, did not provide instructions to the jury to address the «widespread racial bias» invoked by referring to her as they did and «wrongly said a factor important to consent was that Gladue was a prostitute,» wrote the Court of Appeal judges in their decision.

Essentially, a juror's racial bias constitutes a violation of a defendant's rights to an impartial jury guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, and prevents defendants from being able to prove a violation of their constitutional rights.

«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. SojourneBy 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. Sojourneby 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.

Startups like Talent Sonar and Entelo are aiming to improve gender and racial diversity by hiding applicant names, genders, and persona identifiers to eliminate unconscious bias.

Recently, the Yale Child Study Center identified implicit racial bias among early educators as a likely source of the disproportionate punishment received by black boys.

Recent studies by social psychologists have found that mindfulness can reduce racial ethnic bias by preventing the automaticity of negative associations that originate in the subconscious mind.