Animosity toward out-groups can be a product of upbringing. Racial and other biases are a product of evolutionary survival pressures. We can counter our biases by accepting them, then consciously ...
Researchers at the University of the Andes and Quantil created a set of 4,156 questions in Spanish to identify bias in AI language models, focusing on social stereotypes across the continent ...
The New Faces of an Old Enemy: From Cape Town to Cairo, the dream of African unity has been recited in speeches, sung in liberation songs, and written into treaties. Yet today, across parts of our ...
In public discourse, but often within psychological literature, racism is regularly portrayed as a natural tendency rooted in human nature. We often hear how racism is the natural consequence of our ...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, January 25 (UNHCR) - Sitting in front of a microphone in a Costa Rican recording studio, Annye tells how an irregular armed group in her native Colombia threatened the life of ...
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, October 14 (UNHCR) - Sitting around a large table in UNHCR's San José office, four young friends discuss a topical subject in Costa Rica that impacts directly on the lives of ...
President Trump has expanded his immigration ban to affect vital U.S. industries like tech, manufacturing and hospitality through the end of 2020. The latest executive order signed on June 22 further ...
As I saw watched a clip from the debate on Wednesday night between former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, and Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, they seemed to fall over each other about who would ...
NEW YORK -- You might have thought about it, heard it. A lot. You might have even felt it: Dictionary.com's word of the year is "xenophobia." While it's difficult to get at exactly why people look up ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
On Tuesday evening, when we started hearing the details of the murderous rampage that left eight people dead in the Atlanta area, a gnawing fear started taking shape. Gun violence has become eerily ...