Science & Technology

This article is part of the magazine, “The Future of Science In America: The Election Issue,” co-published by LeapsMag, the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program, and GOOD. Journalists, educators, and curators have responded to Black Lives Matter by highlighting the

Date of Birth: April 9, 1921Hometown: Hampton, VAEducation: B.S., Mathematics and Physical Science, Hampton Institute, 1942Hired by NACA: April 1951Retired from NASA: 1985Date of Death: February 11, 2005Actress Playing Role in Hidden Figures: Janelle Monáe For Mary Winston Jackson, a love of science and a commitment to improving the lives of the people around her […]

Honor Black history all year long with this set of printable Black scientist posters. We partnered with Ward’s Science and professional book illustrator Kim Holt to create these original works of art featuring four accomplished scientists. They are truly frame-worthy! How can I use the posters? Hang them on your walls to brighten your space. […]

Google has purchased Edlyft’s AI tutor – a generative AI co-pilot for college students studying computer science. Erika Hairston and Arnelle Ansong, two long-time friends, founded Edlyft in 2020 to support Black . . .

By Dzevida Sadikovic Retha Hill, the director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is using a grant from the Online News Association to help Black women professors learn the benefits of immersive technology in journalism. Hill, a professor of practice at […]

T he pronounced shortage of cybersecurity workers has been exhaustively chronicled, as has the low participation rate of Black people and other minorities among technology industry professionals. According to the 2021 Cybersecurity Workforce Study issued in October by the non-profit International Information System Security Certification Consortium — (ISC)2 — unfilled cybersecurity openings in the United […]

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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest diseases that can now be prevented and cured. Many researchers worked to develop effective TB treatments, but they didn’t do it alone. In The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, author Maria Smilios chronicles the lives and lifesaving work of […]

As former President Trump seeks Black voter support, some of his followers have also begun targeting Black voters — with fake images created by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report by BBC Panorama. The news organization reported Monday finding dozens of deepfakes portraying Black people supporting the former president. In one of the AI-generated […]

In recent years computing technology stakeholders have increasingly begun to ask questions about how to make our technology less biased, more fair, increasingly equitable, and even explicitly anti-racist. When it comes to how to make this happen, however, we have fewer answers than we do questions — particularly when it comes to thinking about these […]


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