"Racism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased disease risk in Black populations" Our team’s research shows that the everyday burden of racism affects the function and structure of the brain. In turn, these changes play a major role in risk for health problems."

“Whiteness” doesn’t just refer to white people. It refers to white being treated as the standard to which everything else is measured. An example is having to use “Black” as a qualifier in searches. As Amazon shows, there are “women” (ie white) and then there are “Black women.”

This year I was commissioned to photograph a few black farmers who also owned the land across the Mississippi Delta. This is Mrs. Ernestine Young of Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the pleasure of photographing her on her farm and she gave me some of the best pepper jelly I ever.

Free Congo🇨🇩 & end consumerism and wasteful consumption.

The Grady Trauma Project identified the impacts of racial discrimination on the brain! The study found that the burden of everyday racism affects brain function in ways that can lead to health risks! insightnews.com/health/racism-…

This week's writing, a growing list of African women working on applied AI in Africa. Bookmark and share for when you're looking for doers, speakers, women to fund and celebrate etc. neemaiyer.com/work/african-w…

What an interesting new paper on the history of computer center sabotage in the late 1960s: it was not about technophobia but about imperialism and racial injustice read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/art…

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back. propublica.org/article/repatr…

Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids? A THREAD

How satellite images and AI could help fight spatial apartheid in South Africa   technologyreview.com/2024/01/19/108…

This breathtaking portrait is Jazzmen Lee-Johnson’s visualization of Kossula, aka Cudjo Lewis, in the midst of his “smoke pictures.” She was inspired by a passage in #Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers. Zora Neale Hurston narrates the moments after Kossula shares with her about

A Texas school district superintendent defended the continued suspension of a Black student over his locs in a full-page newspaper ad “Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity" themessenger.com/news/texas-sup…

Law enforcement uses #AI that turns #DNA into a face and then run the "face" through #facialrecognition software, thereby mixing and matching technologies "in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable criteria"🤔 wired.com/story/parabon-…

Fourteen-year-old Heman Bekele spent the last year developing a bar of soap that could treat skin cancer. John Yang talks with Bekele for more. pbs.org/newshour/

Parents’ higher income from their beauty and kids’ inherited beauty raise kids’ incomes. With both parents in the top 1/3 of looks, their kid earns $2300 a year more than average, from Daniel S. Hamermesh and Anwen Zhang nber.org/papers/w32086

The Caribbean Digital (TCD) will be at Who Owns Black Data on March 29! TCD is accepting applications to their Artist Residency until April 1, 2024. The Caribbean Digital Virtual Artist’s Residency program supports Caribbean artists working in digital media.

Explore the transformative impact of AI on the art world with Villa Albertine: join experts from across industries to talk intellectual property, disinformation, latest technologies, and more. Join us May 6-7 in New York: villa-albertine.org/events/art-in-… Artwork Minne

“Our project informs Nigerians and the world of the legacy of Nok art. Through extensive research, we made connections between cultures and tribes living in the Nok area and other cultural artefacts.” - Vetum (obafemi martins) and Amaka (baddie bot) opencountrymag.com/presenting-amo…

It’s infuriating when it’s practically impossible to cancel something - gym membership, magazine subscription - that was so easy to sign up for. Seeing the FTC put an end to that is one more reason I’m thankful for the Biden-Harris administration.