Are financial firms using sexist and biased data?
Jamie Heinemeier Hansson had a better credit score than her husband, tech entrepreneur David. They have equal shares in their
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‘Can I have a white doctor for the operation?’: Racist abuse against NHS staff almost triples
We all know it’s against the law to discriminate someone based on their race, age, gender, sexual orientation or religion
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Canada refuses visas to over a dozen African AI researchers
For the second year in a row, Canada has refused visas to dozens of researchers – most of them from
Read moreBlind student ‘violently’ pulled from seat
A blind student who was “violently” removed from a prestigious debating society has been cleared of any wrongdoing. Ebenezer Azamati
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Disney+ warns viewers about past racism, but not as well as Warner Bros.
Some of Disney’s older movies streaming on Disney+ will include disclaimers about the cultural context of certain scenes that are considered outright
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Black Facebook employees complain racism, discrimination have gotten worse
An anonymous memo alleging Facebook still has a problem with racial bias is circulating inside the company one year after a
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The black princess who ‘took on a white world’
The young woman arrived at Southend railway station by third class carriage with her heart set on winning the town’s
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I was racially abused – then my school tried to suspend me
A 17-year-old pupil in Edinburgh says she was called the “N” word and told to hang herself by fellow students.
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Did a Florida church not hire a pastor because he was Black?
A Black pastoral candidate that was being considered for the top job at First Baptist Church of Naples, Florida did
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Black kids go missing at a higher rate than white kids. Here’s why we don’t hear about them
The chilling story of Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped after herparents were killed last year, was national
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NHSX chief nurse recruitment ‘paused’ over diversity concerns
The application process for England’s first ever chief nursing information officer has been “paused” due to concerns that the criteria
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Black and Missing Inc.: missing black children are underrepresented in news
Three-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was abducted from a birthday party on Oct. 13. Her body was found 10 days later
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Gender Pay Gap or Parent Pay Gap?
Figures released by the Government showed that only one fifth of all new mothers return to a full-time career within
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How Can We Curb the Spread of Scientific Racism?
A dozen years ago I flew to Europe to speak at a conference on science’s limits. The meeting’s organizer greeted
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Tweets written in African-American English slang are more likely to be flagged as offensive
The internet is filled with trolls spewing hate speech, but machine learning algorithms can’t help us clean up the mess.
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