Understanding how race is historically and structurally built into the workplace

Shows risks of making decisions using data that reflects inequities in American society.

A health care algorithm reflects underlying racial bias in society

In what ways do libraries act as ‘instruments of social control,’ and how could they be made into instruments of restoration, reparation, or transformation?

Former workers reveal "questionable and misleading methods" used to obtain facial scans.

With criticism of facial recognition resulting in bans across the country, companies are looking to improve the technology. However, the New York Daily News recently found that Google's attempts to improve facial recognition resulted in questionable…

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of fewer than a hundred Black American women ...

What could "nerd tunnel vision" possibly mean?

Biometric systems used by ICE to round up migrants and separate families didn’t come from nowhere. They’ve been built over decades by both parties.

People have a tendency to treat technology and data as neutral, sterile and immune to mortal failings. Yet the digital tools we use at schools, jobs ...

“Over the last 5 years I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of ‘fit.’"

This chapter considers diversity broadly to mean a variety of perspectives, whether grounded in race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, or disciplinary study. It begins with a description of the current environment of scholarly communication, looking at the demographics and state of affairs in academia, publishing, and librarianship, including how biases present in all three fields affect scholarly communication. It then moves to a consideration of how librarians and library publishing programs can transform scholarly communication. By adopting a social justice perspective--actively working against ignorance and indifference to reduce systematic biases and injustice in academia, publishing, and librarianship- academic libraries can make their collections and products more reflective of the breadth of knowledge and experiences found in society and make their processes more welcoming to a diversity of participants.

On Tuesday, I started getting social media notifications about Frank Boles’ article, “To Everything There is a Season,” was was selected for the American Archivist brown bag lunch…

Fantasy author Zetta Elliott (SHIP OF SOULS, A WISH AFTER MIDNIGHT) takes a hard look at minstrelsy in kidlit with her essay "Minstrelsy is the New Black."

Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study