Social Psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt is investigating the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people and the far-reaching consequences of stereotypic associations between race and crime.
The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at www.macfound.org/Fellows.
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Everton Wagstaffe, who refused to leave prison on probation because he viewed it as a surrender of his claim of innocence in the death of a teenage girl, learned on Wednesday that he had prevailed in a struggle that he began from behind bars nearly 23 years ago.
A panel of state appeals court judges unanimously reversed the kidnapping convictions of Mr. Wagstaffe and his co-defendant, Reginald Connor, finding that Brooklyn prosecutors in 1992 and 1993 were responsible for “burying” documents that might have shown that detectives and the prime witness had lied. The panel also dismissed the indictments of the two men.
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Her psychological research shows how race affects everything from the death penalty to stop-and-frisk.
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Police said a firearm was recovered beneath his body.
“This information is based on the GBI’s preliminary investigation,” the agency said in a release. “The GBI will continue to thoroughly investigate this incident to determine exactly what occurred
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An injured child rests in a field hospital after what activists claim were at least five air strikes carried out by forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus September 11, 2014.
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As the detective in the old LA Dragnet show use to say – “just the facts”. Between Jan. 1, 2000 and August 31, 2014, the report found, law enforcement officers in Los Angeles County used lethal force resulting in the deaths of at least 589 people. That’s almost one death a week, for nearly 14 years.
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Dr. Dahlia Wasfi: “Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a third of them children.”
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A group of individuals, one of whom was wielding a machete, attacked two brothers in Chicago. WLS reports.
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.
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Money can move across borders.
Raw materials can move across borders.
Manufactured goods can move across borders.
People (especially the poor) are highly restricted from moving across borders.
People should have the freedom and liberty to move where the resources and jobs are located.
A man claims to be a victim of George Zimmerman road rage this week. Zimmerman allegedly threatened to kill the other man involved in the incident.
According to WSVN, Lake Mary police officials said they received a 911 call Tuesday from a man claiming Zimmerman threatened to kill him during a road rage altercation.
Authorities said they received a second 911 call from the same man on Wednesday, saying George Zimmerman was waiting for him outside his place of work and that he feared for his personal safety
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