To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman
Although companies have created detectors to help spot #deepfakes, studies have found that biases in the data used to train these tools can lead to certain demographic groups being unfairly targeted.
A team of researchers discovered new methods that improve both the fairness and the accuracy of these detection algorithms by teaching them about human diversity
1969
Rev Thomas Kilgore elected Pres of American Baptist Convention
1988
Dr. Patricia Bath received patent(no. 4,744,360), method for removing cataract lenses, 1st African American woman doctor to receive patent for medical invention
> On stage and screen, self-referential dramas such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
We're on the lookout for perspectives that are currently under-represented on bookshelves in the UK and in the US, and material first written in languages other than English.
There’s an important gap between “hope” and “optimism.”
Hope is not just about looking on the bright side. It plays the long game: enduring suffering with integrity.
It’s something Martin Luther King understood when he said “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” But hope makes us act, anyway.
It’s been 1 year since Seattle’s Mayor signed a racial and social justice law, placing its existing Race and Social Justice Initiative under the city’s office of civil rights and charging the whole city government with ‘implementing change toward ending institutional racism.’
Hey everyone. At $150/$250 to finish out my week's rent, to keep me safe. 2 days late. Please use PP/V for urgent access to funds, avoid late fees, houselessness and generally more misery. #mutualaid#disability#Blackmastodon@disability@mutualaid#Writing fam please amplify?
In the 1960s, Edward J. Dwight Jr. seemed poised to become America's first Black astronaut, but it never happened, so he left the flight-test program and became a computer systems engineer and later, a sculptor. Now, at age 90, he's going to space, and he's ready. "I've pulled more G's than any person on Earth," he tells NPR. "I've been high enough to see the curvature of the Earth. ... I've been doing things like that most of my life."
1864
Caetano da Costa Alegre born, São Tomé, Portuguese Africa—died April 18, 1890, Alcobaça, Port
1st significant black African poet writing in Portuguese dealing with the theme of blackness