W.E.B. Dubois

Everything about W.E.B. DuBois is fire

Misty morning

Complexity of Matrix Computations Seminar

Crunching the Matrix

Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith

Originally posted on Ancillary Review of Books:
Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith Sneha George Under Review: Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. Edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith. Duke University Press, 2020. [W]e often assume that…

Means to an end

Safety predicated on police terror is neither safe nor sustainable.

Interview 27: Racial discrimination and fair machine learning

Originally posted on Boris Gorelik:
I invited Dr. Charles Earl for this episode of my podcast “Job Interview” to talk about racial discrimination at the workplace and fairness in machine learning. Dr. Charles Earl is a data scientist in Automattic, my previous place of work. Charles holds a Ph.D. in computer science, M.A. in education,…

U.S. Police Can’t Stop Killing

Map: 1,500 people killed during interactions with police in the 9 months since the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Data from Fatal … U.S. Police Can’t Stop Killing For anyone holding in to the delusion that a new administration would mean the end of the on going war on Black life, a […]

The Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative

The Black Revolution in Data Science has begun

Understanding the Ongoing Farmers’ Protest in India

Panchali Kar gives a deep and thoughtful analysis of the on going farmer’s protest taking place in India. The scale od solidarity in the midst of oppression is truly inspiring. by Panchali Kar If we take a close look at the BJP government, we get a clear picture of its thoroughly reactionary stance. Working class […]

Black In AI 2020 call for papers

The call for papers for the Fourth Black In AI conference is out! Submissions are due on October 2. If you’re not familiar with the Black In AI conference, its primary goal is to promote and sustain the development of Black and African researchers in the data science, machine learning, and AI communities. From the […]