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Unlike explicit bias, which consists of the attitudes and assumptions we consciously recognize as part of our belief system, implicit bias refers to subconscious beliefs and attitudes about race, ...

Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There is a crisis of pregnancy-related deaths for moms and babies that is especially bad in Philadelphia. According to the Health Department, maternal mortality in Philadelphia ...

NEW YORK — An unarmed black man holding a cellphone, Stephon Clark, is fatally shot in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California, and residents ask whether the officers only saw race when ...

Could implicit bias training prevent an incident like the one at a Philadelphia Starbucks in which two black men were arrested after asking to use the restroom? The word "implicit bias" or some ...

An "implicit bias" training session required by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encourages health care workers to admit they that are biased, and teaches them that Black people, overweight women and ...