Musings on technology and justice
I am happy to announce that The Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur, GA is awesome for data science! A few blocks away from us, it is such a regional treasure for children’s books and events. Diane has brought game changing books, authors, and programs to Atlanta and environs. But last week I was […]
Read More The Little Shop of Data Science StoriesAccording to this story in the Atlantic, the migration of African Americans from the Northeast to Georgia in particular (and the Southeast generally) may be a factor in the November 6 election. The reason it is called reverse migration? In the 20th century more than 10% of the Black population of the South left the […]
Read More Reverse migration and the Georgia electionMy partner Dr Gayatri Sethi is interviewing celebrated writer and illustrator Yuyi Morales today at the Decatur Book Festival today, Saturday, September 1 from 1:00 to 1:30. They’ll be discussing Morales’ new book Dreamers. Isn’t it time you talked to your children about what is going on at the border? Dreamers talks about Morales’s own 1994 […]
Read More Gayatri interviews Yuyi Morales at Decatur Book FestivalThe recent election of Doug Jones to the U.S. senate in Alabama — thanks largely to African American turnout — got me thinking: What if the Black populations of Southern cities were to experience a dramatic increase? How many other elections would be impacted? Does that seem far-fetched? Over a tenth of the Black population of […]
Read More Back to Mississippi: Black migration in the 21st century