Tag Archives: Racially

Following a two-week investigation, BYU said in a statement it found no evidence to corroborate allegations of racial heckling by a fan at a women’s volleyball match on Aug. 26. The university said it reviewed audio recordings, security footage and “reached out” to at least 50 people at the event before coming to its decision Friday morning. BYU added that it lifted its ban on the fan the school originally identified as the person who allegedly used a racial slur directed at a member of the… Source link

For years, Google has sought to avoid algorithmic racial biases, which have proved embarrassing to the company and offensive to users. In 2015, the tech giant apologized after its photo app misidentified Black people as gorillas. Now Google is looking to address subtler signs of bias, including image results that have reinforced European standards of beauty and suggested that Black hair is unprofessional.  Google announced a raft of changes to its search engine in September, at an event… Source link

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Yahoo Finance Presents it’s well beyond time to correct the racially inequities weaved into the fabric of the nation’s infrastructure.  “So one of the problems with the racially destructive choices that were made in the past is that it’s a lot harder to reverse when it’s in the form of a big concrete highway. There are many places in the country where it’s been shown that choices were made to run a highway right through the heart of what had been… Source link