diversity

Clinical Trials Still Don't Reflect The Diversity Of America

3:05pm December 16, 2015

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Clinical trials are too white, with less than 2 percent of cancer studies including enough minority people to provide information that could be useful for health, a study finds.

Student protesters staged an Occupy-style protest inside Occidental's Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center for nearly a week.

Education

Protesting Racial Bias, Students Trade Placards For Pillows

9:30am November 25, 2015

by Kirk Siegler

Inspired by the events at Mizzou, students at Occidental College in Los Angeles recently got administrators to agree to a list of demands and are pledging to hold them accountable.

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Leslie Miley, former software engineer at Twitter

Economy

Q&A With The Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversity Problems

1:06pm November 06, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Leslie Miley says the company keeps an internal list of colleges and universities it wants to hire from — Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon — and says messaging like that is part of the problem.

African-American patients with chronic kidney disease were half as likely to use an electronic health portal than were non-black patients.

Online Health Tools Might Not Help The People Who Need It Most

1:18pm October 23, 2015

by Lynne Shallcross

An online portal to manage chronic kidney disease sounds great, but poor, older or black people were less likely to use it. That means the shift to e-health could make health disparities worse.

Race

Young People Lead North Carolina's More Diverse Look

5:52pm August 13, 2015

New Census figures show increasing diversity in North Carolina, particularly among the youngest residents.

#RaceOnTech: Sharing The Experiences Of Diverse Innovators

10:01am July 17, 2015

by Davar Ardalan

Who are some of the diverse voices emerging in tech and science? This summer, All Tech Considered will lead a storytelling project to engage with innovators who are making an impact.

3 Emerging Themes From #RaceOnTech

9:45am July 17, 2015

by Davar Ardalan

This week, our #RaceOnTech discussion has turned up some common themes regarding diversity in the science and technology fields: the role of identity, the wealth gap and the importance of mentors.

A Manifesto On Diversity In Public Media

6:53pm June 01, 2015

by Al Letson

The host of the award-winning programs State of the Re:Union and Reveal shares his ideas about making public radio sound more like America.

Education

Partnership Focuses On Increasing Minorities in NC Health Care Professions

6:00pm March 31, 2015

by Keri Brown

A group of twenty colleges, universities and state health agencies are working together to increase minority representation in health care professions across North Carolina.

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Education

New Website Chronicles Wake Forest's Progress On Diversity

10:32pm February 10, 2015

by Keri Brown

Wake Forest University unveiled a new website Tuesday that outlines its plan for increasing inclusion and diversity on campus and addressing bias.