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With the heavy emphasis on diversity and inclusion, it seems un-American somehow to talk about class. After all, aren’t we the land of the free where stories about people with meager beginnings, ...

Unconscious bias (also known as implicit bias) refers to unconscious forms of discrimination and stereotyping based on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, ability, age, and so on. It differs from ...

Research has found that attempted suicide rates are higher among the LGBTQ+ community. Licensed Professional Counselor ...

How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.” In his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” George ...

Another report based on gender identity and religion was an Aug. 2025 incident where a student reported a street evangelist for saying “remember, only male and female,” and trying “to convert [the] ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. I got an email the other day from an engineer who wants to build a new website to weed out bias in journalism. His idea made me ...

Racial bias can seem like an intractable problem. Psychologists and other social scientists have had difficulty finding effective ways to counter it – even among people who say they support a fairer, ...

Confirmation bias is a psychological term for the human tendency to only seek out information that supports one position or idea. This causes you to have a bias towards your original position because ...

Merely calling someone a name is not a bias crime. State law defines malicious harassment — a felony commonly referred to as a “hate crime” — as intentionally injuring, damaging property or ...