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Past the crowds and balconies of Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras Day has started the same way since 1819, with a neighborhood tradition as unexpected as... (2023)
Historian Jarvis Givens on freedom celebrations, Black aspiration, and the continuing pursuit of justice. (2022)
Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever se... (2022)
The slaughter of the Herero was genocide, says Berlin | Europe (2021)
Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime. As the Tampa Bay Times reports,... (2020)
by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford :: SSRN In a research paper titled “Dirty Data, Bad Predictions,” lead author Rashida Richa... (2020)
A formula for assessing the gravity of kidney disease is one of many that is adjusted for race. The practice can exacerbate health disparities. (2020)
As Black History Month draws to a close, we’re highlighting 12 prominent tech experts from history and five from today who are working to bring mor... (2020)
Recent scholarship in AI ethics warns that computing work has treated problematic features of the status quo as fixed, failing to address and even... (2020)
In honor of Black History Month, we’re celebrating trailblazing African-Americans who contributed to the development of modern computer technology. (2017)
African-American women were among early pioneers in computing in the United States. Generally, they were hired as mathematicians to do technical co... (2020)
An email from CEO Satya Nadella to Microsoft employees: As I shared in our Employee Town Hall last month, and in my email earlier this month, we a... (2020)
Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. (2020)
After nearly a week of protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd, teachers are looking for lessons they can use to help stude... (2020)
Tuesday's ruling in the Harvard affirmative action case allows colleges to use race in their admission decisions. A legal scholar offers insights i... (2019)
New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. (2019)
Philosophy remains one of the bastions of the Western canon and white, male scholars. Should it diversify and if so, why? (2019)
Forget Silicon Valley. Black entrepreneurs have discovered the best tech scene in the country. (2019)
Why a protest against racial injustice became a political hot potato. (2018)
How Racism Gave Rise to Acupuncture for Addiction Treatment. Black Panthers and other activists brought the ancient Chinese practice into addictio... (2018)
"I feel like I'm disturbing people by just being there," says one man in "Story of Access." (2018)
Despite calls for their ouster, public university professors who utter offensive things enjoy free speech protection. But a scholar argues for anot... (2018)
Over the past seven years, human semen imports from the U.S. to Brazil have surged some 3,000%, with most buyers selecting donors whose online prof... (2018)
Educators are embracing ‘Black Panther’ in their curriculum, and it’s amazing. "Tess Raser’s students have been studying colonialism in Africa f... (2018)
“Reed is just one college—and a small one at that. But the freshman revolt against RAR could be a blueprint for other campuses. If the “most libe... (2018)
ALEXANDRA LORAS has lived in eight countries and visited 50-odd more. In most, any racism she might have experienced because of her black skin was ... (2017)
How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)
This short film by Stanley Nelson explores the impact of bias within public accommodations as well as the possibilities for a better future. (2018)
TED-Ed Published on Jan 25, 2018 When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during ... (2018)
At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can ha... (2023)
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)