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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.
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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Education

Local youth poet honored for work exploring African and African-American identity

So how does a local kid become one of the nation’s top youth poets? In Juliet Lubwama’s case, the journey started with ...

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 A tour group is shown walking through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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Inclusive admission won’t hurt white students, but it will make your university better

Students of color have earned the right to be on any campus they set foot on, and their colleges and universities are better off for having them.

8 years ago

Fourth grader Sirvat Labiba (center) in class at Crescent Town Elementary School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
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Part Two: Ontario celebrates diversity, but still works to close achievement gaps

Part two of our Ontario series

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Part Three: How one Berlin school integrated by segregating

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New Castle County playground is latest area hit with racist graffiti

New Castle County police officers want to know who would spread hate at a children’s playground with racist graffiti. On Thu ...

8 years ago

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Education

Bryn Mawr College scrubs name of founder with racist views

A private college in suburban Philadelphia says it will remove references to the name of one of its founders in printed and other materia ...

8 years ago

Elijah Clay stands outside the Deliverance Evangelistic Church in North Philadelphia, where he works and studies theology.
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Running while black? In Abington, minor case sparks major debate over racial profiling

“They were looking to target a black male, and they didn’t care if they had the right one or not,” said Asa Khalif, an organizer for Black Lives Matter.

8 years ago

 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a political ally of President Donald Trump, says the president's statements blaming
Politics & Policy

Christie raps Trump for blaming Charlottesville violence on ‘both sides’

President Donald Trump’s comments that both sides were equally responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, were a mi ...

8 years ago

 In this file photo, students get help from their parents as they move into their dorm rooms on the first floor of Virginia Tech's West Ambler-Johnson dormitory in Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 15, 2007. (Christina O'Connor/AP Photo, file)
Education

Criticisms of American college life split on party lines, Gallup poll shows

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

8 years ago

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Education

Red Clay forms equity panel to address racial disparities

Red Clay Consolidated School District has created a committee to review and change “practices related to racial equity.” ...

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Suspect arrested for painting ‘black power’ on Rizzo statue

Updated: 10:30 a.m. Philadelphia police have arrested a man suspected of spray-painting the phrase “black power ...

8 years ago

 Marchers gather at Broad and Green Streets for the Philly is Charlottesville march Wednesday evening. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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On ‘Radio Times’: How to counter the hate after Charlottesville

Thousands of ...

8 years ago

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For black women, hair — and everything it connotes — can be a political act. How hair intersects with social justice and other issue ...

8 years ago

A counter demonstrator uses a lighted spray can agains an Alt Right demonstrator at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Antifa needs a new way to fight the Alt-Right

Antifa and the conservative media attention it draws raises questions about the effectiveness of militant tactics in organized efforts to challenge the violence of fascism.

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 Zillah Elcin
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Community

Don’t just feel guilty about your racism; fight against it

For people like me, who have just graduated or are still in high school, the connection between Americans who look down on people of color and Nazis is an easy one to make.

8 years ago

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