Joanne pre-NYMHM: 18 Oct 2016

Reached Kenya safely – have pretty much been on media blackout since Saturday. Logged in to check FB and this is basically the first news I saw. Woah.

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Former senior U.S. national security officials are dismayed at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s repeated refusal to accept the judgment of intelligence professionals that Russia stole files from the Democratic National Committee computers in an effort to influence the U.S. election.

Chicago Tribune

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Pretty concerning. From the original study: “Findings revealed that when expecting challenging behaviors teachers gazed longer at Black children, especially Black boys. Findings also suggested that implicit biases may differ depending on teacher race. Providing family background information resulted in lowered severity ratings when teacher and child race matched, but resulted in increased severity ratings when their race did not match.” [NPR]

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