“Equality is overdue; to achieve it, we must match rhetoric with resources,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “We must invest in women and girls, turbocharge progress and build a better world for us all.” His new UN System-Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan “commits to placing women and girls at the …
Read More »Muslim leaders protest alleged bias in Sanwo-Olu’s commissioner list
The protest was aimed at conveying their objection to the recently announced list of 39 commissioner nominees put forward by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. It can be recalled that the Muslim Community had previously voiced their disapproval regarding the composition of the nominee list, which included eight Muslims and 31 Christians. …
Read More »FTC Chair Accused Of Misleading Congress On Questions Of Bias, Ethics
By J.J. Brannock (The Center Square) Two House Committees announced plans to investigate Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, for potentially misleading Congress after a recently published memo shows she allegedly ignored advice and chose to sit in on a review of a Meta merger despite a potential …
Read More »Chimamanda?s piece is a sad reminder that the possession of brilliance and high intellect by an individual provides no immunity against prejudice, bias and bigotry – Tinubu’s aide, Dele Alake, writes
Dele Alake who is the Special Adviser on Communications to President-elect Bola Tinubu, has reacted to the open letter Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie wrote to US President Joe Biden, questioning his congratulatory message to President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Chimamanda had in the letter described Nigeria’s democracy as hollow, insisting the …
Read More »Biden’s HHS Giving $4.5M to Train on ‘Implicit Bias’
By Adam Andrzejewski for RealClearPolicy The Department of Health and Human Services is awarding $4.5 million in grants to public colleges to train maternal health providers in implicit bias. The grant summary states, “the purpose of this program is to address implicit bias among maternal health care providers to reduce …
Read More »Nurse Fired For Refusing Implicit Bias Training In Latest Equity Hurdle For Hardworking Americans
Implicit bias training has taken the country by storm and there are real life consequences to its infiltration, especially within the healthcare community. Case in point, a Texas nurse made headlines for an opinion article she wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week where she revealed what happened to …
Read More »Skin Tone Bias: How skin complexion affect people perception of beauty
One of the most popular sub-conscious sentiment is light-skinned beauty is better. Because of this, bleaching is prevalent among those with darker skin. The goal is to be lighter, fairer and whiter. Some scholars argue that the root of this is interracial marriages or sexual relationships between Europeans and black …
Read More »Skin Tone Bias: How complexion affects people’s perception of beauty
One of the most popular sub-conscious sentiment is light-skinned beauty is better. Because of this, bleaching is prevalent among those with darker skin. The goal is to be lighter, fairer and whiter. Some scholars argue that the root of this is interracial marriages or sexual relationships between Europeans and black …
Read More »Not a lot of women in hip hop but Sophie is keen on showing she can break the bias
Historically, it also appears that men listen to rap music more than women, which may have an impact on the way they view the genre. ‘ Notwithstanding, Sophiegrophy who Is an Australian based, Nigerian born hiphop star who rise high in numbers across streams on digital platforms (Thanks to incredible …
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