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There's a word for why we're all probably at least a little bit racist, even if we really don't want to be: Implicit bias. It's a term that describes what's happening when, despite our best intentions and without our awareness, racial stereotypes and...

Understanding the racial bias you didn't know you had Barack Obama has been confused with a valet.  Teachers have lower expectations for black and Hispanic students. Jurors are more likely to see darker-skinned defendants as guilty. Sure, you could...

Miguel Angel Peña-Rodriguez is a victim of discrimination; that, nobody denies. Nine years ago, two teenage girls accused him of sexually assaulting them in a Colorado public bathroom, and a jury convicted based exclusively on the girls’ own testimony...

If even a small amount of racial bias is perceived during “private” jury deliberations, trial judges are permitted to bypass the rule protecting the secrecy of deliberations to ensure defendants get a fair trial, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, March...

I sometimes imagine conference at the U.S. Supreme Court as a bit like some holiday dinners I have attended, events dominated by comments like, “Some people think it’s okay to take the last of the gravy,” or “That pie looks so delicious it makes me wish...