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Large corporate investment concentration 2013 Investors have been buying houses at a steady rate since the last recession, but how much does it affect availability in the housing market? New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows investors are most likely to push out Black, middle-class homeowners from neighborhoods. Data from 800 neighborhoods in […]
The American oceanographer Dawn Wright is the first Black person and only the 27th human to have been to the deepest spot on the planet. Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, is 10.9km (6.8 miles) below sea level – deeper than Mount Everest (8.8km [5.5 miles]) […]
Street signs for the recently renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, near the White … [+] House. Getty Images The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has gained momentum and an increased cognizance in our collective consciousness due to recent events, most notably the death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis. That […]
In 1944, Nancy Agnes Durant was the first Black finalist in the Science Talent Search. Society for Science In 1944, Dr. Nancy Agnes Durant became the first Black finalist in the Science Talent Search (STS), ranking in the top 10 scholarship winners that year. She followed in the footsteps of her father, Dr. Oswald Durant, […]
Photo credit: Detroit Public Library Digital Collections. New research from an award-winning historian at the University of Toronto will offer rare insight into the unwritten and intertwined histories of technology and the Black experience in New York City over the last 200 years. Led by Edward Jones-Imhotep, the project, Black steam, Blacktop and Black light, will explore how […]
Rachel Feltman: Picture two pregnant people walking into the same hospital to give birth. They have identical medical histories and experienced identical pregnancies. They’re seeing the same obstetrician. The only difference between them is that one is Black and the other is white. According to a study of births in New Jersey hospitals, the Black […]
Republicans’ confidence in medical scientists down sharply since early in the coronavirus outbreak Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how much confidence Americans have in groups and institutions in society, including scientists and medical scientists. We surveyed 14,497 U.S. adults from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2021. The survey was conducted on Pew […]
Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers’ union as a “step backward.” The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves […]
Veterinary science deals with the study and practice of caring for animals’ health and well-being. While many veterinary scientists make a career of caring for household pets like dogs and cats, specialists in the field care for livestock, exotic pets, and wildlife. Others pursue careers in veterinary research, studying and innovating the ways practitioners care […]
In 2020, historically large and widespread protests in the U.S. have increased public awareness about systemic racism in all spheres of society. There is, for instance, more work needed to create a more diverse, equal-opportunity academic system — as a panel discussion hosted by MIT last Thursday made clear. “Anti-Black racism is built into the […]