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Study: Some medical students think black people feel less pain than whites

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Study: Black women must work harder to lose weight

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Study: Black students at white colleges fear losing cultural identity

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Black college students less likely to ‘hook-up’

theGRIO REPORT – Black students are less likely to participate in hooking-up in the four years they are in college than white students…
/ July 24, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Study shows instilling black children with 'proud, informed, and sober' racial pride enhances learning

The study found that “racial socialization”—teaching kids about their culture and involving them in activities that promote racial pride and connection—helps to offset the discrimination and racial prejudices children face by the outside world.
/ January 4, 2013
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Study finds racism may harm pregnant women of color and cause low birth weight in newborns

From MadameNoire.com: A new study shows that the negative effects of discrimination and racism can last a lifetime, beginning when a
/ August 29, 2012
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Study finds you should judge people based on their shoes

CLUTCH – A new study by psychologists at the University of Kansas found that people were able to correctly judge a stranger’s age, gender, income, political affiliation, emotional and other important personality traits just by looking at the person’s shoes.
/ June 15, 2012
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Are researchers race-baiting black childhood obesity tests?

FRUGIVORE – Why did more than half of the parents of white girls have a college degree and have more income, while less than one-quarter of the black girls’ parents had a degree?
/ June 11, 2012
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Study: Increased TV time lowers self-esteem in most children, except white boys

CLUTCH – According to the findings in a recent study, with the exception of white boys who are often affirmed by the images of white males they see on screen, when children increased their TV watching their self-esteem took a hit.
/ June 5, 2012
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Toys 'R' Us priced black doll higher than white version

theGRIO REPORT – Last week, a Toys ‘R’ Us in Fayetteville, Georgia came under fire for pricing a black doll several dollars higher than the white version of the same doll…
/ December 21, 2011