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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 […]
Image Image Alt Stacy Brown-Philpot, Delane Parnell, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins Visionary tech cartoon series “The Jetsons” never acknowledged a future with Black people at the forefront of innovation, yet here we are continuing to pioneer the way forward in all aspects of life — especially technology. From Dr. Mark Dean and
As former President Donald Trump seeks Black voter support, some of his followers have also begun targeting Black voters – with fake images, according to a report by BBC Panorama. The news organization on Monday reported finding dozens of deepfakes portraying Black people supporting the former president. In one of the AI-generated images, conservative radio show […]
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. W.E.B. Du Bois, born February 23rd, 1868, was perhaps the most influential African American intellectual and civil rights activist of the early twentieth century. He was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard, and went on to become a professor of history, sociology, […]
The central region of this image contains the highest concentration of supermassive black holes ever seen and about a billion over the entire sky. Made with over 7 million seconds of Chandra observing time, this 2017 image is part of the Chandra Deep Field-South. With its unprecedented look at the early universe in X-rays, it […]
Wellcome’s £20 million support will provide flexible funding for underrepresented groups in UK research, with individuals able to apply for grants of up to £200k for a period of up to two years. The awards are aimed at helping researchers stay in research and progress their careers. This initiative is part of the charitable foundation’s […]
The distant relationship between Black Americans and water is still as prevalent today as it was in the early 20th century. Swimming pools grew popular and began to expand across the United States in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s as Americans were looking for more ways to socialize according to National Geographic. However, when one thinks […]