A portmanteau of “whiteness” and “backlash,” the word whitelash is defined as “a hostile or violent reaction by white people to the advances or influx of other racial or ethnic groups.” While a ...

This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he ...

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Increasing the diversity of clinical trial participants is all the rage these days. The numbers tell the story: According to Food and Drug Administration data, in 2020 75% of trial participants were ...

Namita Acharya and JahJah Quarles likely would never have crossed paths if they didn't share a common goal of breaking into Buffalo's fast-growing tech industry. Acharya, a 52-year-old from ...

At Case Western Reserve University, deans examined every list of faculty-job applicants to certify that the pool was sufficiently diverse—a task that factored into deans’ performance reviews. At the ...