“For centuries judges have had to make guesses about the people in front of them.”
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“The crowdsourced database that was use to seed locations to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go came from early augmented reality games that were played by overwhelmingly affluent (and thus, disproportionately white) people, who, in an increasingly racially segregated America, are less and less likely to v”
“The crowdsourced database that was use to seed locations to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go came from early augmented reality games that were played by overwhelmingly affluent (and thus, disproportionately white) people, who, in an increasingly racially segregated America, are less and less likely to v”
“After Lupita Nyong’o won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013’s 12 Years a Slave, she was hit with the same question many Oscar winners face: What’s next?”
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“HERE’S an understatement: It isn’t easy being an Asian-American actor in Hollywood.”
“Breaking your leg is objectively painful. But the treatment you get from your doctor can often depend on whether you’re black or white.”
“Roborace will be the world’s first driverless racing series when it debuts either later this year or early next year, but the organizers have finally unveiled what its custom-made electric cars will look like — and boy do they look wild.”
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“‘Discrimination is still a reality’ says co-author after two-year study reveals a much higher rate of interest in ‘whitened’ names for black and Asian Americans Minority job applicants who resort to “resume whitening” – a practice in which candidates alter any information on th”
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“Universal Pictures and Facebook teamed up to create custom trailers for white audiences to promote the N.W.A. film Straight Outta Compton, scrubbing any mention of the rap group and instead focusing on the rise of Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.”
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“Sunday morning political talk shows can determine the week’s agenda — and that agenda is overwhelmingly defined by the white, conservative men who appear on those shows much more often than other groups. The majority of the guests were white men.”
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