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Technology is causing real harm for people in the form of public benefits cuts, denials, and terminations. The new Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub offers practical tools to support immediate fights […]

This workshop will explore the role libraries play in patron health journeys, which includes the layout of our physical spaces, the way we handle sensitive documents, which resources we share, […]

Join METRO’s Director of Programs and Partnerships, Davis Erin Anderson, for a conversation with Sarah Lamdan about Lamdan’s new book, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information. […]

ABSTRACT This field review leverages books, essays, academic journal articles, and a recent review of an emerging field to understand how racial bias in early photographic and film techniques carried […]

In this interview, Salome Asega discusses her career as an artist and researcher whose practice celebrates dissensus and multivocality.

Child welfare agencies are actually in the family policing business. And just as with other forms of police, their analog violence is powered by digital systems. When I was giving […]

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“Hi, good morning. I’m calling in from Bangalore, India.” I’m talking on speakerphone to a man with an obvious Indian accent. He pauses. “Now I have enabled the accent translation,” […]

In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and cannot be fixed through technical means alone. In 2020, he […]

#BlackTechFutures Research Institute is excited to have you register for our Virtual 2022 Regional City Panel Discussions for Tennessee & Texas. The panels will outline how to build a thriving […]

2 Hidden Pioneers of the Data Industry Available on Adobe Express created by Emily Corbin When people talk about the pioneers of the data industry, there’s a gravitation to highlight […]

The Black Women in Data (BWD) Summit 2022 is the two-day forum for Black women leaders to plan their next career move in the data industry by hearing from data […]

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