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After George Floyd, Twin Cities Groups Fight Inequality

After George Floyd, Twin Cities Groups Fight Inequality Joseph P. Williams Frustrated by life in Kansas City, her hometown, LaDonna Funderburke decided to migrate from Kansas north to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. It was a logical choice: The area has a reputation for progressive politics, healthy lifestyles and a thriving cultural scene. Where I m from, people are pretty much forthright about how they see your place as a Black person, says Funderburke, 53. It didn t take long, however, for her to realize the good life in the Twin Cities was harder to achieve if you re African American. Racially tinged microaggressions – subtle insults cloaked by Minnesota Nice politeness – jacked up Funderburke s stress levels and eroded her confidence.

Fixing Medical Devices That Are Biased against Race or Gender

Scientific American Designers should show how well instruments perform across different populations Advertisement We don t think of everyday devices as biased against race or gender, but they can be. Electrical engineer and computer scientist Achuta Kadambi is familiar with the problem both professionally and personally. “Being fairly dark-skinned myself,” Kadambi says, he sometimes cannot activate no-touch soap dispensers and faucets that detect light bouncing off skin. At one airport, he recalls, “I had to ask a lighter-skinned traveler to trigger a faucet for me.” Medical devices, too, can be biased an issue that has gained attention during the COVID pandemic, along with many other inequities that affect health. In a recent article in

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