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NEW YORK — An unarmed black man holding a cellphone, Stephon Clark, is fatally shot in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California, and residents ask whether the officers only saw race when ...

Could implicit bias training prevent an incident like the one at a Philadelphia Starbucks in which two black men were arrested after asking to use the restroom? The word "implicit bias" or some ...

There is a misconception that since women legally have the same rights as men in the United States, gender bias isn’t a ...

Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.

Los Angeles anesthesiologist Dr. Marilyn Singleton was outraged about a California requirement that every continuing medical education course include training in implicit bias — the ways in which ...

Over the last several years, a new liability theory has been used by workers in employment discrimination lawsuits: implicit bias. The objective is to try to establish a discriminatory motive in a ...