Articles for Racial Bias

Experts: Marcellus Williams execution shows "how much politics factors into capital punishment"
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts: Marcellus Williams execution shows "how much politics factors into capital punishment"

Salon  

The Tuesday execution of Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams, a Missouri man held on death row for 23 years for a 1998 murder he maintained he did not commit, followed months of pleas to have his life spared. The original prosecuting office's "concession of error" in this way makes Williams' case both "unusual" and "quite extraordinary," argued Austin Sarat, a Salon contributor …

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Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren’t
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren’t

LA Times  

Civil rights organizations and defense attorneys last month asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in this state for being irredeemably racist. Opinion Editorial: Bureaucracy of death may snag condemned Oklahoma man, guilty or not There’s no better example of the death penalty’s randomness than the case of Richard Glossip in Oklahoma, who even the district attorney …

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Indian student attacked for using Canada food bank claims racial bias
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Indian student attacked for using Canada food bank claims racial bias

India Today  

An Indian data scientist who has faced vitriolic attack over his video showing how he used food banks in Canada has claimed it was racial bias that got people to target him. The Indian data scientist, Mehul Prajapati, who is on a student visa in Canada, reached out to IndiaToday.In to share his side of the story after facing attacks …

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Missouri attorney general is accused of racial bias for pinning a student fight on diversity program
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Missouri attorney general is accused of racial bias for pinning a student fight on diversity program

Hindustan Times  

— Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district's diversity programming, a lawyer for the majority Black district in suburban St. Louis said that the state's chief attorney is showing “obvious racial bias." “The entire community deserves answers on how Hazelwood’s radical DEI programs resulted in such despicable safety failures that has resulted …

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New Jersey Provides a Road Map for Fighting Racially Biased Traffic Stops
1 year, 3 months ago

New Jersey Provides a Road Map for Fighting Racially Biased Traffic Stops

Slate  

When the Supreme Court struck down the use of race-conscious admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina last term, the conservative justices behind the decision robustly claimed to seek the end of racial discrimination, espousing a view that “eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” Meanwhile, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted a major irony: Despite claiming that consideration …

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Class bias in housing is not, in fact, OK.
54 years, 11 months ago

Class bias in housing is not, in fact, OK.

Slate  

After centuries of oftentimes bloody fights against deeply engrained white supremacist views, most Americans of goodwill today recognize that racial bias is wrong. Is it OK to pass exclusionary zoning laws that outlaw multifamily housing and keep poor and working-class people out of towns and local public schools on the basis that they won’t pull their weight in contributing to …

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Rapper E-40 cites racial bias as reason for ejection in Warriors-Kings 4th quarter
1 year, 8 months ago

Rapper E-40 cites racial bias as reason for ejection in Warriors-Kings 4th quarter

New York Times  

Rap star E-40, a longtime Warriors fan who was ejected from Saturday’s playoff game between Golden State and Sacramento, says racial bias played a role in the incident. Here’s what you need to know: Earl Stevens, known as E-40, was ejected in the fourth quarter of the contest and video later emerged on social media showing him and Kings fans …

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Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
1 year, 9 months ago

Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

Associated Press  

PITTSBURGH — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. Even as they fight to regain custody of their daughter, they can’t question the “risk score” Allegheny County’s tool may have assigned to her case …

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Yasiel Puig claimed racial bias in sports betting probe. Feds say he was just trying to avoid trial
1 year, 10 months ago

Yasiel Puig claimed racial bias in sports betting probe. Feds say he was just trying to avoid trial

LA Times  

Former Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, center, at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 11. Federal prosecutors are rejecting claims of anti-Black bias in their criminal case against former Dodger Yasiel Puig, calling the allegations part of a last-ditch attempt to avoid trial — one that also included a “personal appeal” to the prosecutors’ …

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The Supreme Court ignores its rulings to keep executions going
2 years, 2 months ago

The Supreme Court ignores its rulings to keep executions going

Raw Story  

The Supreme Court seems determined to execute as many people as possible. In 1986, in Ford v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to execute an “insane” person under the Eighth Amendment and that the principle dated back to common law. In 2017, in Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled that clear statements of racial bias by …

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Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
2 years, 6 months ago

Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases

Associated Press  

Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable decisions. Oregon’s Department of Human Services announced to staff via email last month that after “extensive analysis” the agency’s hotline workers would stop using the …

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Does an oximeter know your skin colour? Here's why UK is probing racial bias in medical devices
3 years, 1 month ago

Does an oximeter know your skin colour? Here's why UK is probing racial bias in medical devices

Firstpost  

Pulse oximeters track oxygen saturation in blood so that urgent medical response can be provided upon a dangerous drop in levels. However, these devices could have failed to reflect drops in blood oxygen levels of people from ethnic groups UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that a review will be launched of medical devices in light of findings that …

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Senate Democrats Urge Google To Investigate Racial Bias In Its Tools And The Company
3 years, 6 months ago

Senate Democrats Urge Google To Investigate Racial Bias In Its Tools And The Company

NPR  

Senate Democrats Urge Google To Investigate Racial Bias In Its Tools And The Company Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A group of Democratic senators is urging Google parent company Alphabet to investigate how its products and policies may be harming Black people. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mark Warner of …

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Side-stepping safeguards, data journalists are doing science now
3 years, 7 months ago

Side-stepping safeguards, data journalists are doing science now

Salon  

News stories are increasingly told through data. News outlets have asserted, on the basis of in-house data analyses, that Covid-19 has killed nearly half a million more people than official records report; that Black and minority populations are overrepresented in the Covid-19 death toll; and that social distancing will usually outperform attempted quarantine. For example, in 2016 ProPublica published an …

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Opinion: The missing element in the George Floyd murder trial
3 years, 9 months ago

Opinion: The missing element in the George Floyd murder trial

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mark Osler is the Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas, and a former federal prosecutor. That means that unless racial bias is an element of one of the crimes charged, race doesn’t often come up in a trial. Chauvin faces second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter charges, neither of which …

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Sephora to fight against racial bias with an action plan
3 years, 11 months ago

Sephora to fight against racial bias with an action plan

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Beauty products retailer Sephora said Wednesday that it will bolster the number of Black-owned brands, scale back on third-party security guards and offer more inclusive marketing as part of a plan to combat racial bias at its stores. The company revealed its plan as it released findings of a study it commissioned that took an in-depth look …

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Sephora to fight against racial bias with an action plan
3 years, 11 months ago

Sephora to fight against racial bias with an action plan

The Independent  

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For years, California police agencies have rejected almost every racial profiling complaint they received
4 years ago

For years, California police agencies have rejected almost every racial profiling complaint they received

LA Times  

Police agencies across California upheld 49 racial profiling complaints from 2016 to 2019, less than 2% of the roughly 3,500 allegations filed, a Times analysis found. Police agencies across the state upheld just 49 racial profiling complaints from 2016 to 2019, less than 2% of the roughly 3,500 allegations filed, a Times analysis of California Department of Justice statistics found. …

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Google staff accuse company of 'racism and censorship' in dispute over ethics researcher Timnit Gebru
4 years ago

Google staff accuse company of 'racism and censorship' in dispute over ethics researcher Timnit Gebru

ABC  

More than 1,200 Google employees have signed an open letter in support of an ousted Ethiopian-born artificial intelligence scholar who pioneered research in racial bias in facial recognition technology. Key points: Dr Gebru is known for her work identifying racial bias in facial recognition software She was reportedly ousted for authoring a research paper that criticised Google technology Observers say …

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Lawyer: Case of Black inmate set to die reveals racial bias
4 years, 2 months ago

Lawyer: Case of Black inmate set to die reveals racial bias

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The lawyer for the first Black inmate scheduled …

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Inquiry finds racial bias, bullying in Iowa football program
4 years, 4 months ago

Inquiry finds racial bias, bullying in Iowa football program

Associated Press  

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Facing a scathing report that detailed racial bias against Black players in his program and bullying behavior by some of his assistants, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said Thursday he would not be making any staffing changes as he apologized and promised to overhaul some of his policies. University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld said the critical …

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