"Black and Hispanic students who earn high grades face social costs in terms of their popularity." ...two of the most common explanations for black underachievement are 1) that white society holds talented blacks back so much that they develop coping devices that limit their striving for academ... Read more...
For years, the SAT has come under attack for having a certain bent. From the Harvard Educational Review to the Princeton Review, the measurement tool has been called a "white preference test." Last year, Harvard published a study arguing that SAT questions in the verbal section favored white stu... Read more...
Triple-negative breast cancers (negative for estrogen receptor [ER], progesterone receptor [PR], and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 [HER2]), are 3-fold more common in black women than in nonblack women, regardless of age or body mass index (BMI), according to the results of a study repor... Read more...
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08/12/2009,
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- While the overall unemployment rate for Americans fell in November, the jobless gap between African-Americans and all other races actually rose, continuing a disturbing trend that has many lawmakers up in arms. The black community has suffered the hardest during the eco... Read more...