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Oct 26, 2011 at 12:01 pm

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Study Suggests “White Flight” In U.S. Nursing Homes

While nursing home admissions is on the rise for Black, Latino and Asian elders, admissions for white elders fell 10 percent causing some to ask is there white flight in nursing homes.

A new study published in Health Affairs, a journal on health policy thought and research, suggests the trend may be driven largely by demographics

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Sep 28, 2011 at 3:10 pm

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Racism Is Still Alive! Study: Dress Nice, Look White

According to a new study conducted by researchers at Tufts University, Stanford University and the University of California, whether we perceive someone as Black or white depends on the clothes they are wearing.

Participants of the experiment were asked to categorize computerized images of people with varying skin tones and clothing. The results show participants were more inclined to label people dressed in suits as white and people in overalls as Black.

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Dec 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm

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Biracials Still Subscribe To The “One Drop Rule”

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Years after slavery and Jim Crow laws, people of African and European heritage still consider themselves to be Black, according to a recent study.

The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

So say Harvard University psychologists, who’ve found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members

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Oct 4, 2010 at 12:52 pm

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Charles Barkley Says LeBron James Backlash Has “Nothing To Do WIth Race”

Former NBA star and current TNT commentator Charles Barkley has continued his criticism of LeBron James. Charles Barkley was asked by WIP in Philadelphia about LeBron James’ media fest, “The Decision”

The only criticism I’ve heard about LeBron and it was my biggest criticism, that decision thing was just stupid. It was stupid, “The second thing when they all came out there dancing around on stage, that was silly. That’s the only thing

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Sep 10, 2010 at 10:45 am

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Are There White People That You Wish Were Black?

or do you wish that you and all your Black favorites were white?

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Aug 4, 2010 at 8:15 am

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Haiti: Where is the Money?

Despite the large amount of money pledged for Haiti — over 50 percent of Americans donated to the relief effort — the efficiency of the effort has been weakened by structural problems, bureaucratic inactivity, the scope of the disaster, and other interests trying to keep their privileges while giving the appearance of change.

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Jul 30, 2010 at 11:48 am

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NY Times: The Obama White House Is Too White

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Jul 22, 2010 at 1:39 pm

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OPINION: Obama Needs To Stand Up to “Reverse Racism” Ploy

From Washingtonpost.com:

After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.

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Jul 12, 2010 at 4:22 pm

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Scientists Discover Why Black Runners Are Faster Than Whites

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WASHINGTON — Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it’s in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows.

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Jul 8, 2010 at 1:20 pm

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McDonald’s Markets To People Of Color Through Menu

From Bloomberg.com:

The music industry has long sold black culture to white Americans. Now McDonald’s Corp. is doing much the same. It’s taking cues from blacks, Hispanics and Asians to develop menus and advertising, in an effort to encourage middle-class whites to buy smoothies and snack wraps as avidly as they consume hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll.

“The ethnic consumer tends to set trends,” says Neil Golden, McDonald’s

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