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June 05, 2013
Many people are very unaware of their racial bias. This bias is called implicit bias. Implicit bias is a subtle and pervasive form of bias against members of a group, merely in virtue of their membership in that group. As opposed to explicit bias, which can consist in overtly discriminatory beliefs, actions or institutional policies.
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Richard Butler, richard@usrowing.org
America Rows Features
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April 30, 2013
Boathouses across America continue to be affluent, upper middle class and white. If we want the United States to be more competitive on the world stage, we are going to need to do what many major American corporations figured out 20 years ago – become more diverse and inclusive.
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Richard Butler, richard@usrowing.org
America Rows Features
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March 05, 2013
Breaking Barriers, an original America Rows program and USRowing organization geared towards inner-city Philadelphia youth, suffered a major setback yesterday when tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment was stolen.
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Allison Frederick
America Rows Features
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February 07, 2013
Sabrina Slaughter is a 17-year-old student at Delaware County Christian School. For two weeks, she interned with USRowing's America Rows initiative. Part of her project was to create a recruiting video for middle and high school students. The video can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/AA1k44rfHXU.
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Sabrina Slaughter
America Rows Features
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April 30, 2012
Just take a moment and think about how much rowing has changed. One of the biggest innovations was when the megaphone attached to the head of the coxswain made way for the first Cox Box. Can you suggest other major changes? What about in other sports?
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Richard Butler, USRowing Inclusion Manager
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March 09, 2012
Amphibious Achievement Teaches Inner City Youth to Row and Learn
The wind was whipping the waters of the Charles River into an uninviting frenzy, but because it was a mid-February Sunday morning, the chances of there being any rowers on the water were slim anyway, particularly for high school crews.
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Ed Moran
America Rows Features
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July 30, 2011
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Ed Moran
America Rows Features
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June 09, 2011
High school seniors Hanna Weisenberger and Maya Robles-Wong stood next to their trailer as their teammates from Oakland Strokes worked. The rowers lifted the boats off the racks and began to rig them, getting ready for the three days of racing that were to follow at the 2011 USRowing Youth National Championships in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
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Sean Rader, USRowing Communications Intern
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May 04, 2011
With an affordable fee structure, financial aid for kids who can demonstrate the need, fundraising, donations and contributions from the university and the community, Deep Water is providing a program that gives high school and junior athletes from all over Stockton access to rowing.
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Ed Moran
America Rows Features
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April 13, 2011
The students of Joyce Kilmer Elementary School clapped and cheered as they watched the U.S. women’s eight cross the line at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The video clip of the gold medal race was just a segment of Princeton National Rowing Association’s presentation to the fifth through eighth-grade students at the school.
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Allison Frederick
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