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Trump rolling back Obama efforts on racial bias
By KATY O'DONNELL


President Barack Obama tried to expand the way racial discrimination is measured and addressed, holding corporations and governments accountable for even unintended bias in a bid to reverse persistent racial inequality.

Now the Trump administration is rolling those efforts back ...


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/08/trump-obama-racial-bias-522940
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Advocates who spent the Obama years pushing for the more expansive use of anti-discrimination laws — even taking the issue to the Supreme Court — are aghast. | AP Photo/Jae C. Hong




 
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Black filmmakers were swarmed by police after checking out of Airbnb

Airbnb host Marie Rodriguez said her neighbor called police because she didn't know the home had been rented.

Donisha Prendergast, who is one of reggae legend Bob Marley's granddaughters, had been staying at the Airbnb while attending a music festival in San Bernardino, Prendergast posted a video of the group's encounter with police on Instagram last Monday and claims she and her friends were racially profiled.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-...e-after-checking-out-of-airbnb-in-california/
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Donisha Prendergast, who is one of reggae legend Bob Marley's granddaughters, had been staying at the Airbnb




 
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Starbucks chairman opens up on company’s race failures – and says its bathrooms are now open to all
By
TRACY JAN
The Washington Post


... Schultz spoke candidly for nearly 20 minutes about the company’s failures over race, from its short-lived ” Race Together” campaign in 2015 to last month’s arrest of two black men waiting for a business associate. “We were absolutely wrong in every way, the policy and the decision [the store manager] made,” he said, "it’s the company that’s responsible.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...s-and-says-its-bathrooms-are-now-open-to-all/
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Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said on Thursday that the company’s previously “loose policy” that only customers should be allowed to use the bathrooms is being dropped. He’s shown here at a 2016 shareholders meeting. (Ted S. Warren / AP)
 
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Incidences of Campus Racial Intolerance Spark Calls for Change
LaMont Jones


Dr. Karla Holloway is distressed, schools also should stop allowing racial intolerance and bias by hiding behind protocol and ideas of free speech, Holloway says. She urges correctives such as college scholarships to the two Native American teens, for example, and assault charges against the grabby faculty member at the University of Florida ....

http://diverseeducation.com/article/116095/
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Dr. Karla Holloway



 
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All I can do is :facepalm:

Back-to-back racial profiling allegations in St. Louis highlight need for training to combat bias

By Mike Faulk St. Louis Post-Dispatch


... On Tuesday, local grocery chain Schnucks fired an employee who initially denied two black customers a money order at the Concord Village location, where the customers alleged racial profiling. On the same day, Nordstrom Rack department store executives apologized for an incident last week where three young black men were falsely accused of stealing from a Brentwood location.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_8be2b393-32cd-5531-b0a6-a110c6809916.html
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In this March 18, 2015 file photo, Larenda Myres holds an iced coffee drink with a "Race Together" sticker on it at a Starbucks store in Seattle. Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting Sunday, ending as planned a visible component of the company's diversity and racial inequality campaign that had sparked widespread criticism in the week since it took effect. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
 

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