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The majority of the league’s 20,000 retirees are Black. And only a quarter of the more than 2,000 men who sought awards for early to moderate dementia have qualified under the testing program.

Retired Black players say NFL brain-injury payouts show bias By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHELLE R. SMITHMay 14, 2021 GMT 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. Former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 60, an...

Retired Black NFL players say brain-injury payouts discriminate By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHELLE R. SMITH Published  article NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 23: Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), Roger Goodell, speaks at a press conference announcing the 16 winners of the first round of the $20M Head Health Challenge, a research grant created by the NFL and General Expand PHILADELPHIA - Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demand...

Black Men Have Lower Cognitive Skills Than White Men, NFL Asserts In Brain Injury Lawsuits On 5/14/21 at 5:07 PM EDT Former NFL players who suffer from dementia or other brain injuries may be entitled to payouts under the NFLs $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims but the league uses a scoring algorithm that requires former Black players to score lower for cognitive skills than their white counterparts to receive an award which has been called "race-norming." The settlement is overseen b...

Opinion: Recent Hacks Prove U.S. Needs Federal Privacy Rules Data from the recent Facebook breach appeared to be several years old and Health Net did not disclose the details of their own breach until months later. Would a national privacy law change things for the better? by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times / April 6, 2021 Shutterstock (TNS) — How many data breaches will it take before our leaders accept the need for a national p...

Michael Dwyer/AP Photo A study by UPenn and NYU researchers found Philadelphia landlords are adding "bad" terms into leases. One big reason is the rise of shared leases, available cheaply on the Internet for landlords to use. One of the coauthors says landlords will use these illegal terms as soon as moratoriums expire. A new study took a deep dive into about 170,000 Philadelphia leases from 2005 to 2019 — and found that the number of "bad" terms in them has incr...

Illegal lease terms have grown for decades, study of Philadelphia landlords finds insider@insider.com (Juliana Kaplan) © Michael Dwyer/AP Photo Housing activists gathering in Massachusetts in October. Michael Dwyer/AP Photo A study by UPenn and NYU researchers found Philadelphia landlords are adding "bad" terms into leases. One big reason is the rise of shared leases, available cheaply on the Internet for landlords to use. One of the coauthors says landlords will use these il...