June 19th is Juneteenth it commemorates June 19th 1865 . The day enslaved African American people heard about the abolition of slavery. A very important day but were we really free?
Segregation continued for another century! #Juneteenth2024#blacklivesmatter#blackmastodon
"Black British anti-knife crime activist Shaun Thompson, 38, has launched a legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police. The police detained the 38-year-old after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a suspect."
The tragic irony is that these models get trained on datasets that do not represent the entire population, and then of course get weaponized against the marginalized communities.
Does anyone know of non-Western NGOs with a successful #Fediverse presence? I am planning a #workshop to share best practices for global civil society about how to break free from #BigTech social media.
"Black Barbie: A Documentary" produced by Shonda Rhimes, will be released on Netflix on June 19. TODAY shares this clip, featuring Kitty Black Perkins, the designer of Black Barbie, and Beulah Mae Mitchell, who worked on the production line at Mattel, remembering conversations with Barbie creator Ruth Handler. “(Handler) would say, ‘Do you have any suggestions?’” Mitchell recalled. “I was able to say, ‘We want a Black Barbie.’”
In the Crenshaw District of South Central LA, Destination Crenshaw is transforming the neighborhood into an "open air museum" embedded within a “Digital Equity Zone”
It involves "pocket parks," murals, free community WiFi, and a proposed open-access fiber network
My story at link below on how DC is empowering neighborhood residents with strategic investments rather than displacing them through gentrification
We want you to know the name Alice Ball. She was the first woman and first African American to earn a master’s degree in science from the College of Hawaii.
Ball remarkably developed a treatment for leprosy, but she passed away shortly after.
Arthur Dean, chair of the College of Hawaii’s chemistry department, took over the project, and renamed Ball’s method to the “Dean Method,” never crediting Ball for her work.
Soo.... Tomorrow is my birthday and I have my usual payment links as well as my wish list. If anyone is feeling generous. It's mostly needed items but there's a few treats too 😁
Hearing Tim Scott so vehemently defend the convicted felon, wannabe dictator, trump, has me convinced that Tim Scott is contending for the title of "Biggest Uncle Tom in America". Yeah, I said it. 😡
Today is the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history – and one that continues to haunt Americans.
One of them is Gregory Fairchild, whose grandfather was caught up in it, and whose family history personally inspires his work.