The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled that mandatory anti-bias training can support a claim for a racially hostile work environment if it repeatedly portrays a specific race ...

Senior Counsel Randy Patterson of the Firm's Knoxville office recently wrote an insightful article that was published in the April 2024, Volume 52, Issue 4 edition of DICTA magazine through the ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the problem. In the United States, Black and Hispanic people are more likely to be stopped, frisked, arrested, beaten, and shot by the police (National Academies of ...

For better or worse, there has been no shortage of difficult conversations these last few years from the pandemic to the racial reckoning America is currently grappling with. But figuring out how the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Diversity consultants say that implicit bias training is the key part of diversity, equity, and inclusion work that's often overlooked. Akilah Cadet, DHSc, MPH, is a diversity educator and activist ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated health disparities along racial and ethnic lines. In response, healthcare organizations are reexamining their role in contributing to these inequities and ...

We often like to think of ourselves as rational, fair, and balanced. But what if some of our judgments and decisions were shaped by hidden biases that we didn't even realize we have? An implicit bias ...