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Blacks More Likely to Get Welfare Penalties

According to a new scientific study, published in the June issue of the scientific journal American Sociological Review, a publication of the American Sociological Association, the African American population in the United States is more likely than the White population to experience the sanctions of the welfare syst...

2 June 2009
02:54 GMT

College Makes Interracial Friendships a Lot Easier

Going to college can be a pretty rough experience for anyone, especially when considering all the different values, beliefs, races and ethnicities that young men and women will experience over night. Making new friends is very important, especially in the first year, but a new study shows that, while White teenagers ...

29 May 2009
06:09 GMT

Teachers Leave Schools with Inflow of Black Students

According to the first study ever to assess the behavior of high-quality teachers in American schools, top educators are very likely to leave the institutions that are experiencing an affluence of African American students. In other words, whenever a learning institution – that is supposed to offer equal oppor...

27 May 2009
21:01 GMT

Nicotine Addiction Can Cause Darker Skin

African Americans may be more predisposed to developing nicotine addiction than their paler-skinned peers, a new scientific study has determined. The paper also reveals the fact that obtained darker skin, as in that obtained from prolonged sun exposure, and not through genetics, from mother to infants, is especially ...

9 May 2009
06:55 GMT


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