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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As some major brands try to make their advertising more inclusive, research from a University of Oregon marketing expert finds that mere representation of a race other than white is not enough. "Our research found that ads should include a mixture of models of different races to foster feelings of inclusion and…

Developers of artificial intelligence are well aware, and share the concern, that their large language models could perpetuate racial and cultural biases. In response, they have tried to assemble diverse development teams to make sure that training data are drawn from broadly representative sources and to apply debiasing algorithms, and they have created built-in safeguards such as programming that prohibits AI programs such as ChatGPT from engaging in hate speech.I thought I would try an experiment to determine just how…

Fantasia Barrino shared that she and her family were racially profiled by Airbnb when they stayed at a house booked on the website for her son’s birthday. The Color Purple star posted on her official social media accounts, explaining that she rented a house for her son and his friends and invited people over to celebrate during the day. Once the festivities ended, the number of guests staying the night matched the number on the reservation, so they did not break any rules. “My stomach is so…

Thirty per cent of children’s books published last year featured racially minoritised characters, according to new research.The sixth report on racial representation in children’s literature by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), titled Reflecting Realities, found a 26-point rise in the percentage of titles featuring racially minoritised characters since the survey was first conducted in 2017, when the figure was 4%. This has gradually risen over the past six years, from 7% in 2018 to 10% in 2019, to 15%…

A screenshot from Humans of the Upper Valley, which Professor Emily Walton created with Dartmouth students. Credit: Dartmouth College Associate Professor of Sociology Emily Walton recalls chatting with a multiracial physician who told her that he'd made more friends in Colorado, where he spent one year during his residency, than he had in nearly a decade of living in rural New England.…

He felt their gaze on his back as soon as he stepped out of the car.As he recalls that day, Bernard Robins says he saw three Los Angeles police officers eyeing him suspiciously from their department cruiser. He knew what to do in these situations. Arms in the air. No sudden movements. And, taking the bass out of his voice, he announced that he was one of their own, a cop. Still, out came the handcuffs.The encounter wouldn’t have looked out of place in many neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Freeway, where Black and…

If you thought Fox News would take a new direction in prime time following the ouster of conservative provocateur Tucker Carlson, the choice for fill-in host in the hour next week suggests otherwise.Kayleigh McEnany, who served 10 months as press secretary in the Trump administration, is getting a weeklong tryout in the high profile 8 p.m. Eastern hour starting Monday. The network is searching for a replacement for Carlson, who was fired April 24 amid revelations that he made racist comments, promoted a conspiracy about…

Whoopi Goldberg regrets using racially insensitive language on “The View.” Yes, again. On Wednesday, while debating Donald Trump‘s possible reasons for paying hush money to adult entertainer Stormy Daniels, Goldberg made a comment that she’s now apologizing for.“The people who still believe that he got g— somehow in the election will still believe that he cared enough about his wife to pay that money from his personal .”According to Deadline, the word was not bleeped out during the East Coast airing’s live broadcast.…

Trends in county-area water infrastructure spending. Data are presented as mean values with 95% confidence intervals. Top panel displays the trends in per cent of county-area budget spent on total expenditures and operational expenditures. Bottom panel displays the trend in per cent of county-areas which contributed any expenditures to water infrastructure construction. Credit: Nature Water (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s44221-022-00007-y…

Ontario Court Justice Lori-Anne Thomas has found that Toronto police racially profiled rapper LocoCity and his friend when they arrested them under the pretext that they had been loitering inside a downtown apartment building. “By no definition could this be considered loitering or hovering,” Thomas explained, according to The Star. In her description of the situation, Thomas noted that the two men had exited an elevator in the building approximately 20 seconds before the two officers approached them. The video also…