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“I hope participants feel emboldened to continue plotting a radically different world in which everyone has all they need to thrive," said keynote speaker and author Ruha Benjamin.
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Technical.ly's lead Baltimore reporter held a thought-providing discussion with the author of "Viral Justice" and "Race After Technology," who also spoke before their convo at the inaugural Waverly Book Festival.
Blake writes: “Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture..."
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