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Angela Saini’s new book makes a compelling argument about race, genetics, and why we keep making the same mistake.
BREAKING FREE OF OLD PATTERNS
Being able to accurately identify emotions in others is important for social interaction in general, but particularly so in interracial contexts, which are prone to misinterpretations and misunderstandings.
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The children’s television show entranced preschoolers—and helped teach impressionable black kids.
From exploding Ford Pintos to racist algorithms, all harmful technologies are a product of unethical design. Yet, like car companies in the ’70s, today’s tech companies would rather bla…
Opinion | Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn't enough.
Black Facebook users complain they can't talk about racism without being censored for hate speech. Civil rights groups want Facebook to fix it.
The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”
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Exactly one week ago, a black Columbia University student was violently attacked by campus Public Safety officers on the first floor of Barnard College’s newly created Milstein Center for Tea…
Content warning: this post includes descriptions of physical violence against a black student. On Thursday night, Barnard Public Safety detained a black male student inside the Milstein Center. According to a Facebook post by Barnard sophomore Alexis Rabkin, Public Safety officers “pinned down” this student, “took away” his student ID, and “tried to force him […]
The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that...
The human-centered approach that can combat algorithmic bias.
Too often whites at discussions on race decide for themselves what will be discussed, what they will hear, what they will learn. And it is their space. All spaces are
The company was careless with the information of some of its poorest users.
An experiment in privacy–and the discussion that ensued–offer unexpected lessons in who gets watched, and how.
CW: abusive language, rape