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The legislative push to restrict their rights isn’t new, but it’s gained more force in 2021.

Mental health experts nonviolently disarm teens with weapons every day.

But there is a lot to apologize for — from Reconstruction to today.

An Asian woman walking in Midtown Manhattan was bashed in the head with a hammer by a stranger demanding the victim remove her mask, police said Monday. The NYPD is investigating the attack as a possible hate crime, the latest in a string of bias-fueled attacks against Asian victims in New York City.

After seeing plays, audience members expressed more empathy for the groups depicted onstage and changed their attitudes about a wide range of political issues.

A new study suggests white parents tell their kids "to not see color." But pretending they don't doesn't fight racism.

Los Angeles sheriff’s department has routinely retaliated against victims’ relatives who speak out, NLG and ACLU say in report

Which sounds more urgent: "global warming" or "pollution blanket overheating planet"? In this actionable talk, communications strategist John Marshall explains why we need to rethink how we talk about climate change -- and offers small but mighty language adjustments to get people to more intuitively understand and care about this existential threat.

“It’s upsetting when you’re so out of control of your body, and you say you’re done, and people ignore you and override your choice.”

“If you're leaving out two-thirds of who people are, how can you possibly be able to effectively address their mental health?”

Organizations benefit from actively fostering kindness. In workplaces where acts of kindness become the norm, the spillover effects can multiply fast. When people receive an act of kindness, they pay it back, research shows — and not just to the same person, but often to someone entirely new. This leads to a culture of generosity in an organization. The authors outline more of the research-backed benefits of kindness, share their own research on how giving compliments boosts happiness, and offer practical tips for managers who want to promote kindness on their team.

The results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness.

Nature - Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.

We took a peek inside a shuttered Bronx facility where NYPD cops are supposed to take emotionally distressed New Yorkers to get help. Another center in East Harlem has served just 45 people — coming out to $1.1 million per visit.

Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.

A Black woman sought three appraisals for her home when she couldn't figure out why the values were so low compared to nearby sales.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory.

Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found.

I have some bad news that, I hope, will turn out to be good news.  Psychological studies are not about you.  They make few if any predictions about how you should live your life, how to tell if you’re an introvert, or anything else about you as an individual.

Designers should show how well instruments perform across different populations

A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources

The company trained the system to recognize different skin conditions. But like Google itself, the app's data has a diversity problem.

The massively popular photo-editing app Facetune is driving a generation of young women to extreme and obsessive lengths to look flawless online.

Leslie Nguyen-Okwu explores what it means to balance on a hyphen, as an Asian and Black woman in America.

"He eats bread and drinks beer but it does not go well for him, then says, ‘Oh, my heart!’ and is dejected."

In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey for her Apple TV+ show 'The Oprah Conversation,' Elliot Page says he collapsed while promoting 'Inception' amid gender pressures.

Amanda Bynes struggled with gender dysphoria while filming 'She's the Man.' Learn more about her mental health struggles after the movie.

As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, most of us longed only for the day when the world would return to what it was before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might be able to make the world just a little better place than it was before. Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.