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By Aziah Siid | Word In Black (WIB) - Every spring, students who withstood the test and rigor of their studies cross the stage to receive degrees of

Historically, learn to code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive.

Cierra Robson is the associate director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab and Kenia D. Hal is a fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology. (Photos courtesy of Word in Black) From self-driving cars that can’t detect folks with darker skin to keep from running them over, to digital assistants like Siri that

Here’s how former cellmates-turned-community organizers Bridgette Simpson and Denise Ruben won legal protections for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs like themselves. 

Virtual reality (VR) technologies have never been more accessible. The utopian vision of accessibility is that it has a democratizing effect; however, when companies monetize their technology, the trade-off is often privacy. Biometric data collection by companies and governments is on the rise, and adverse effects of “filter bubbles” that prey upon negative emotional responses also continue to afflict society. As an increasingly mainstream technological medium, VR is already used as a tool towards these ends, and Meta has gone on record indicating their data extraction-based business model...