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Two Black academics discuss the rationale behind leaving Twitter or going down with the ship.
My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.
The new four-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, was Crystal Marie and Eskias McDaniels’ personal American dream, the reason they had moved to this Southern town from pricey Los Angeles a few years ago.
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A conversation with Dr. Johnathan Flowers about Elon Musk's changes at Twitter and the dynamics on Mastodon, the decentralized alternative.
This past spring, I had the opportunity to develop a virtual cybersecurity camp for young women and girls called CompuGirls. CompuGirls was founded in ...
How far have video games actually come when it terms of positive Asian representation?
Still a predominantly white profession, librarianship has a legacy of racial discrimination, and we must face and better understand the ways in which race impacts how we meet users’ needs both now and in the future. Amanda L. Folk and Tracey Overbey, authors of two ALA Editions Special Reports, posit that identifying and acknowledging implicit and learned bias is a necessary
In 1960s Mississippi, nine Black students put their lives on the line to fight for equal access to public libraries.
New paper suggests introductory STEM courses disproportionately push underrepresented minority students out of the natural and applied sciences.
While growing up along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, Kenyatta Thomas relied on the internet and other teenagers to learn about sex. Thomas and their peers watched videos during high school gym class that stressed the importance of abstinence — and the horrors that can come from sex before marriage. But for Thomas, who is […]
Workers allege that casteism influences how companies hire and promote talent.
Exploring why diversity must play a critical role in data privacy and how companies can create more inclusive and ethical technologies.