Black start-up founders in Silicon Valley have plenty of stories of racism, but unlike employees at companies, there are few laws protecting them from discrimination.

Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”

Dismantling institutional racism needs to begin with empowering antiracist people.

For four days in July, Facebook ran an ad from a page called “White Wellbeing Australia.”

Game designer Orion D. Black has left their job at Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons department, calling out the company for paying lip service towards diversity and change while …

Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics

"I think we’re in a watershed moment for racial justice," says Color of Change’s Jade Ogunnaike.

Romance Writers of America represented one of the sexiest and most lucrative genres in books. But writers of color say it didn’t represent them.

Sociologist and author Simone Browne connects the dots between modern marketing and the branding of slaves.

A survey of 67 workers highlighted the issues faced by people of color, women and LGBTQ people in the tech industry.

CS education in higher education Amy J. Ko, Ph.D. Professor, The Information School, University of Washington June 15th, 2020 It’s been a rough few months. Pandemic, White America slowly realizing the horrible racial injustices that have been ongoing for hundreds of years. Personally, it’s been a...

Twitter user Dan Hirschman posts another example of search results that are — let’s just say — questionable: This is what a racist algorithm looks like. (H/T @epopppp) pic.twitter…

As the first U.S.-born Hispanic senator, Senator Dennis Chávez of New Mexico left a rich legacy of advocacy for civil rights and civil liberties. In this lectur

This article examines how information literacy is situated in a history of white supremacy in academia and academic libraries and provides an overview of some of the historical critiques of information literacy, to which the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education is ostensibly responding. Using Critical Race Theory, I provide a close reading of the Framework, highlighting the ways in which issues of race and racism are elided and white academia is centered. This article also examines critiques of information literacy and how critical information literacy has responded to the Framework. I then propose some ways to emphasize antiracist pedagogy in the information literacy classroom.

The publishing industry is full of “white allies” who perform solidarity in public but ignore criticism and prefer the status quo.

Companies are getting applauded and pilloried for public comments about race. Marketing guru Bonin Bough says it's not about how much compassion you feel.

“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,” said Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which has surged to the top of the New York Times best sellers list in paperback nonfiction, two and a half years after its initial January 2018 […]