OZY Investigation: A series of biases mean psychologists of color are twice as likely as White peers to fail the profession's entry level test.

Three months after getting her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University’s prestigious Teacher’s College, Karima Clayton was filled with shame.

The 36-year-old from Harlem, New York, had taken the esteemed EPPP — the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology, which psychologists must pass to practice in America and most of Canada. She had spent hundreds of hours studying and nearly $700 on the exam fee. But she failed. To get her license, she would have to do it all again. “It almost reinforces these stereotypes that you’re ‘less than,’” says Clayton.

Overall, 90 percent of all candidates pass the EPPP on their first attempt. But as a Black psychologist, Clayton’s experience is far from unique.

CG Chen's app is designed to serve people exactly when they become homeless.

When CG Chen answered the phone, she was shocked to hear her friend Simon Bunyi say he was being evicted. Bunyi, 28, had been laid off. His tech job had helped him financially support his family overseas, and he had concealed how precarious his situation had become.

After helping Bunyi back onto his feet, Chen spent months interviewing and doing design workshops with more than 100 people facing homelessness. “People don’t even know that there’s this entire infrastructure of social services that they can access,” says Chen. Many never turn to their personal networks because “there’s a huge shame factor,” she explains. But for those who seek help, few digital tools exist. The majority of the “hidden homeless” own a phone — and 86 percent first turn to Google when they lose housing. But they’re often left feeling like “a hot potato” as they get passed around by providers, Chen says.

India's Supreme Court just opened the door to cases from every god under the sun.

It’s difficult to defeat a god. But still, it took seven decades of legal fighting for Ram Lalla Virajman, one of Hinduism’s most popular deities, to win the claim he — or at least his faithful on his behalf — made to a piece of land in Northern India that’s been claimed as sacred space by both Muslims and Hindus. The five-member Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, in their own words, were “tasked with the resolution of a dispute whose origins are as old as the idea of India itself.”