by lindaoppenheim | Feb 13, 2018 | Article, Video
While some facial recognition software can identify gender, the accuracy of its results varies by skin tone and gender, accurate 99 percent of the time if the photo is of white men, but erroneous up to 35 per cent of the time “for images of darker skinned...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 8, 2017 | Opinion
In his essay in The Root, Jeremy Helligar relates incidents when friends and family have tolerated hateful attitudes they don’t share and challenges readers to step up and speak up. Read the complete post by clicking here.
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 4, 2017 | Opinion
Kelly Macias analyzes the media treatment of Stephen Paddock. “Even in his death, Paddock is afforded something that, in life, is not afforded to people of color. He gets to be seen as an individual—not as a member of a suspect ethnic identity group, even one...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 25, 2017 | Opinion
In their op ed, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury’s review disproportionate discipline in schools by race, across the nation and through history. Click here to read the complete piece.
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 25, 2017 | Article
Amy Halberstadt received a William T. Grant Foundation grant for her work about how “practices that reduce racial bias among teachers can respond to gaps in academic and disciplinary outcomes between Black and White students. . . . . Teachers and educational...