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A sign seeking job applicants is seen in the window of a restaurant in Miami, Florida, on May 5, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images A sign seeking job applicants is seen in the window of a restaurant in Miami, Florida, on May 5, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Twenty years […]
Planning to turn to a chatbot for advice? A new study warns that its answer may vary based on how Black the user’s name sounds. A recent paper from researchers at Stanford Law School found “significant disparities across names associated with race and gender” from chatbots . . .
The Pentagon announced the names of the three American service members who were killed in an unmanned aerial drone attack on a base in northeast Jordan on Sunday. In a press release Monday, the Defense Department said Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia and Spc. […]
U.S. Figure Skating has announced its women’s and ice dance selections for the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2024 in Montreal, Quebec. The teams were selected following the 2024 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Columbus, Ohio. WOMEN’SAmber GlennIsabeau Levito ICE DANCE Madison Chock and Evan BatesChristina Carreira and Anthony PonomarenkoEmily Bratti and Ian Somerville Alternates […]
2 January 2024 Updated 1 hour ago The names of dozens of people connected to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made public in a release of court documents on Wednesday. Public figures including Prince Andrew and former US President Bill Clinton are among the associates, friends and alleged victims named in the 900 […]
Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. Rick Friedman / Getty Images A judge has ordered a New York court to reveal the names of 180 people – including victims, associates and suspected accomplices – tied to Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier who killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex crimes. AFP saw […]
15 December 2023 ADELLE M BANKS United StatesRNS The Conference of National Black Churches has called on African American congregations to embrace a list of priorities – from “government-sponsored reparations” to improved access to healthcare – as they move out of a pandemic era and into an election year. “We believe Black life must be […]
Martin Abel In a study he coauthored with fellow economist Rulof Burger earlier this year, Abel concluded that, when faced with identical résumés, employers are less likely to call back job applicants with Black-sounding names. “Using nationally representative data,” write the two economists, “we find widespread beliefs that people with names perceived to be Black […]
Using fake names, sham LinkedIn profiles, counterfeit work papers and mock interview scripts, North Korean IT workers seeking employment in Western tech companies are deploying sophisticated subterfuge to get hired. From a report: Landing a job outside North Korea to secretly earn hard currency for the isolated country demands highly-developed strategies to convince Western hiring […]
Contact: Shelby Cefaratti-Bertin, Baylor University Media & Public Relations, 254-327-8012Follow us on Twitter: @BaylorUMedia WACO, Texas (Oct. 24, 2023) – Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary has announced the appointment of Jared E. Alcántara . . .