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On May 28, 1945, Violet Wallach of Locust, New Jersey, complained that black residents in her area had to enter a back door in the Navesink township library. Once they entered, black would-be reade…
In tests, it detected black faces less than half the time
“A racist was always going to see me as Asian.”
She had more than 13 million followers when she deleted her account.
What happened at Pinterest fits an unnerving pattern in the tech industry that has fallen behind even legacy industries in diversity and inclusion. Janice Mins reports.
"We are trying to achieve pay equity across all genders and races in the world in our lifetime."
At the University of Minnesota Carlson School, students say they’ve long endured racism and microaggressions. But a computer technician's treatment of Musab was the last straw.
“You wouldn’t like this job,” she says she was told. Facebook is only 3.9 percent Black and is facing an EEOC investigation.
In September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington.
The workers said they endured racist comments, and sexual harassment
Companies pledged money and support for people of color. But some say they still face a hostile work environment for speaking out or simply doing their jobs.
Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.
Read the full report here. Executive Summary The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol demonstrated how online disinformation can have severe offline consequences. For some time, the problems and possible impacts on democracy caused by online mis- and dis-information have dominated public policy discussions and thus research about these topics has developed rapidly in […]
Amazon talks up inclusion in public but fails behind the scenes, suit claims.
Students, professors, and education experts worry that that’s pushing Black students in particular out of math and science
First Black grad of Wisconsin Library School forced to pass as white.
Execs vowed to fix issues with alleged unequal pay and bullying, but workers haven’t seen it.
Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers.