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#research: One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced
One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced’ So the percentage of people who admit to being “somewhat” racist hasn’t changed hugely in 30 years (but that’s a fascinating finding in itself –...
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#todayin: racism: study: black people over-represented in crime news stories
According to a new study by Media Matters for America, four New York City television stations consistently reported crimes by black people at a higher rate than their arrest rates. (Chart to the right/...
View Article#todayin: racism: women in prison: racial bias in Australia and the US
While mass incarceration is a dominant social issue involving men, it is also increasingly affecting women of colour. Black women are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white women, and...
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#womenslives: Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges. Happy 60th birthday to Ruby Bridges! As a six-year-old, Ruby Bridges famously became the first African American child to desegregate an all-whiteelementary school in the South. When the...
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#research: women, particularly women of colour, bear costs of mass incarceration
A groundbreaking new report (from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design) surveyed former prisoners and their families in 14 states* and found that the...
View Article#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Soror Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863...
Soror Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954), daughter of former slaves, was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She became an activist who led several...
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#picturethis: Birmingham Campaign, 1963
thesociologicalcinema: Photos from the Birmingham Campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
View Article#vivelafeminism: America is in crisis—and women of color are at war –...
Molly Adams One of my closest friends recently discovered she was pregnant. She and her husband had been trying to start a family since college, but were unable to because the women in her family...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Protests to end segregation continued well...
thesociologicalcinema: Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. (c) on link.
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#research: U of T: racial bias may begin in babies at six months
In the first study, published in Developmental Science, Lee showed that six- to nine-month-old babies begin to associate faces from their own race with happy music and those from other races with sad...
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