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Sarah Florini is an associate professor of film and media studies in the Department of English and the associate director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. She holds a doctorate in communication and culture from Indiana University. She researches the intersection of race and technology, and her work has appeared in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television and New Media, and Transformative Works and Cultures. Her book

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STATE COLLEGE — When Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi canceled the Center for Racial Justice in 2022, she pledged to invest the millions of dollars earmarked for the center in

A faculty member said Penn State’s promise to better fund existing DEI programs felt like “an attempt to pit people against one another.”

A faculty member said Penn State’s promise to better fund existing DEI programs felt like “an attempt to pit people against one another.”

Staff and students at Penn State Altoona honored the birthday of noted abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass by participating in a digital transcription event hosted by the Penn State Center for Black Digital Research. Gathering Wednesday afternoon in the Eiche Library, volunteers worked to transcribe handwritten letters and writings from the extensive collection left by […]

Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.

Historian Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history

Two years ago, Kate Masur of Northwestern University started documenting the radical importance of the Colored Conventions movement.

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities Credit: Getty Images July 15, 2021 There is a general belief that data is objective, neutral, and therefore accurate. "Numbers dont lie," goes the oft-repeated maxim. But what about the people interpreting the data: can individuals really be ob...