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D4BL III
Conference
November 18–20, 2024
November 18-20, 2024 at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami.
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Data Days
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October 22nd, 2024
Just Equations Conference
Video
October 2, 2024
In April 2024, Yeshi Milner delivered a powerful opening keynote at Just Equations’ sixth annual conference, titled The Mathematics of Opportunity: Closing the Divide.
Artificial Intelligence: The Risks and Benefits To Peace and Social Justice
PressItem
September 1st, 2024
Meet the Inaugural D4BL Movement Scientist Fellows
Update
August 13, 2024
Today, we are overjoyed to announce—after years of planning and many months of interviews, assessments, and deliberations—the first cohort of D4BL Movement Scientist Fellows. These fellows are crit...
Organizing
D4BL III Conference Fellow Open Call
Update
August 8, 2024
Application Closes: Sunday, September 15, 2024
D4BL III Request for Workshop Proposals
Update
August 8, 2024
Submission Deadline: Sunday, September 29
LIBER8 MIA Decompress x Black Techno Matters
Event
June 18–19, 2024
7pm–2am
We are excited to kick off our summer programming with our second annual Juneteenth celebration. This time we are teaming up with Black Techno Matters, bringing you a stellar lineup of performers. ...
Decompress
MPD Hands Over Records of Social Media Surveillance of D.C. Activism
PressItem
June 7, 2024
MKE Tech Podcast S:3 Ep.5 Data for Black Lives
Video
May 14, 2024
The MKE Tech Podcast focuses on driving equity and diversity in tech and startup spaces. In this episode, Yeshimabeit Milner shares the origin story of Data for Black Lives, and highlights the #NoM...
Data weapons
Mindful Machines: Unpacking Ethical Considerations in AI
Video
May 6, 2024
On March 20, 2024, Partnership on AI organized an urgent roundtable. This exclusive gathering assembled leaders in philanthropy and the social sector to discuss the impacts of artificial intelligen...
Documents Expose How DC Police Surveil Protest Activity, Social Media Profiles
PressItem
May 3, 2024
A.I. Evolution Creates New Form of Online Sexual Abuse
PressItem
May 2, 2024
AI has created a new form of sexual abuse
PressItem
May 2, 2024
Over decade of Washington, D.C., protests, police scanned social media for ‘disrupters’
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May 1, 2024
DC Metropolitan Police Department Social Media Monitoring Documents
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April 30, 2024
Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity
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April 30, 2024
Just Equations: Mathematics of Opportunity
Event
April 16, 2024
3pm–4pm
Just Equations’ sixth annual Mathematics of Opportunity conference will explore the future of equity in mathematics education and showcase the voices of education leaders, policymakers, and equity ...
Education justice Economic justice
Philanthropy’s Crucial Role in Advancing Inclusive AI
PressItem
April 11, 2024
Ohio State Technology Law Journal Symposium
Event
March 22, 2024
9am–3pm
On Friday, March 22, Yeshimabeit Milner will speak at the Ohio State Technology Law Journal Symposium. Her remarks will expand upon the Data for Black Lives #NoMoreDataWeapons campaign, calling att...
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Data Activism + Decompress
Event
February 23, 2024
5pm–9pm
This keynote was delivered by our founder and CEO, Yeshimabeit Milner on Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center on February 23, 2024 at 5 PM. The event was h...
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Yeshimabeit Milner | Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center
Video
February 23, 2024
This keynote was delivered by our founder and CEO, Yeshimabeit Milner on Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center on February 23, 2024 at 5 PM. The event was h...
Algorithms Decompress Data weapons
INTERNET FRIENDS
Event
December 10–11, 2023
11pm–3am
Decompress Decompress Fest
D4BL X MASISI
Event
December 10–11, 2023
10pm–2am
Decompress Decompress Fest
COMMUNITY SHOW
Event
December 10, 2023
3pm–9pm
Decompress Decompress Fest
D4BL X NEVER NORML
Event
December 9–10, 2023
3pm–3am
Decompress Decompress Fest
D4BL X NEVER NORML Interactive Mixtape
Video
December 9, 2023
​1M Realities is a interactive exhibition curated by global music producer Suzi Analogue, bringing an immersive experience into futurism and audio for Miami Art Week. The event celebrates a decade ...
Decompress Decompress Fest
D4BL X NEVER NORML Performance
Video
December 9, 2023
​1M Realities is a interactive exhibition curated by global music producer Suzi Analogue, bringing an immersive experience into futurism and audio for Miami Art Week. The event celebrates a decade ...
Decompress Decompress Fest
Free Palestine Show
Event
December 8–9, 2023
10pm–4am
FREE PALESTINE
Decompress Decompress Fest
MUSIC IS A BLACK TECHNOLOGY
Event
December 7–8, 2023
7pm–1am
Decompress Decompress Fest
Decompress Fest Dec 7-10, 2023
Event
December 7–10, 2023
7pm–3am
Decompress
Music is a Black Technology Panel II
Video
December 7, 2023
Decompress Decompress Fest
Oxford Union Debate on A.I. as an Existential Threat
Video
November 27, 2023
On October 19, 2023, our Founder & CEO debated Max Tegmark & Jaan Taalin of the Future of Humanity Institute and authors of the Open Letter to Pause AI on motion: the House believes AI is an Existe...
Algorithms
DECOMPRESS III
Event
November 4, 2023
3pm
It is with great joy that we invite you to the third Decompress Miami event this Saturday, November 4, 2023. We are thrilled to feature artists and performers Ezili Jean, Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown), Suzi Analogue, and idealblackgirl (Amanda Williams). Doors open at 7 PM, panel conversation at 8 PM, and performances start at 10 PM. This event will be recorded. Register at the link below.
Decompress Organizing
DECOMPRESS III
Video
November 4, 2023
Get into this discussion on sampling, reparations, and fighting for recognition. Our Third Decompress event brought together performers Ezili Jean, Speaker Music (Defforest Brown), Suzi Analogue, a...
Decompress
Oxford Union Debate: AI is an 'Existential Threat'
Event
October 19, 2023
7am
On October 19, 2023, our Founder & CEO debated Max Tegmark & Jaan Taalin of the Future of Humanity Institute and the authors of the Open Letter to Pause AI. The video of her speech will be live on the Oxford Union YouTube channel soon. We will be sharing it on this page once it is live.
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Apartheid Is an Algorithm
Update
October 13, 2023
On October 14, 2023, Founder & CEO Yeshimabeit Milner delivered the keynote speech Apartheid Is an Algorithm at the Milky Way Tech Summit held at Northwestern Mutual Financial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Abolition Algorithms Democracy
Congressional Briefing on AI & Civil Rights
Video
September 27, 2023
Our Founder & CEO, Yeshimabeit Milner, was invited to deliver remarks on legislative and governance solutions at a Congressional Briefing on AI & Civil Rights hosted by Senator Cory Booker and the ...
Massive benefits of AI come with environmental and human costs. Can AI itself be part of the solution?
PressItem
September 7, 2023
Abolish FICO
Update
August 16, 2023
Remarks of Founder & CEO Yeshimabeit Milner at the White House Roundtable on Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices
Readout of White House Roundtable on Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices
PressItem
August 15, 2023
DECOMPRESS presents Vanguards
Event
August 12, 2023
3pm
We launched Decompress on Juneteenth with trailblazing voices in electronic music, such as Kenny Larkin, house music legend DJ Heather, Greg "Stryke" Chin, Godfather of the Miami electronic music s...
Decompress Organizing
DECOMPRESS Presents Vanguards
Video
August 12, 2023
Decompress Presents Vanguards: A lineup of Black Femme DJs, producers, and multi-disciplinary artists that reflect the vanguard of techno, house, ghetto tech, and bass, while also fusing emerging g...
Decompress
Announcing the second round of grantees from the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund
PressItem
August 2, 2023
33 Leaders Standing Up to Big Tech in the Age of A.I.
PressItem
July 30, 2023
DECOMPRESS Project Launch
Event
June 19, 2023
10am
After a year of building, we are excited to announce Decompress, a multi-disciplinary series and movement laboratory based out of our new, temporary HQ in Little Haiti, Miami, FL.
Decompress
Music Is a Black Technology
Video
June 18, 2023
To commemorate Juneteenth and the launch of Decompress, we convened a powerful panel discussion featuring electronic music pioneers DJ Heather, Daygee Kwia, Eddy Andre Samy of Paperwater, and Greg ...
Decompress
D4BL HQ
Event
Spring 2023
8pm
D4BL Decompress is a co-working lab, studios for artists/ practitioners, and a multi-use venue for events.
No Humans Involved
Update
September 13, 2022
The battle for the soul of AI is not about preventing tech from becoming human but about preventing AI from being used to define who is human and who is not.
Abolition Algorithms
Data for Black Lives and Brennan Center Sue DC Police for Surveillance Records
Update
February 28, 2022
Our DMV Hub has spent months working with the Brennan Center to push for transparency and accountability from the MPD regarding their social media monitoring policies. Today we explicitly and publicly name MPD's use of social media as the weaponization of data.
CA Reparations Task Force
Video
January 26, 2022
The state of California is the first and only state to have created a state body dedicated to the study and proposal of reparations. On January 27 I gave expert testimony on discrimination in techn...
Data governance Democracy Data weapons
Consentful Tech Curriculum
Report
November 27, 2021
In 2021 Data for Black Lives joined forces with the Consentful Tech Project to release a curriculum guides practitioners through a process to develop technology in truly inclusive but also consentf...
Participatory ML Research Algorithms
Detroit: Not Yet Seen
Update
August 8, 2021
Our Detroit Hub shares an update on failed efforts to enshrine equity in their city’s constitution and plans to move forward.
Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say
PressItem
July 13, 2021
Data for Black Lives Statement in Solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
Campaign
June 27, 2021
We at Data for Black Lives stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand an end to Israeli Apartheid.
Democracy Data weapons
Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism
Report
May 16, 2021
​​​​​Big companies are using data to preserve the power imbalance that keeps them rich. This economic model is rooted in chattel slavery and relies on the extraction and commodification of data.
Data governance
Introducing #NoMoreDataWeapons | Crash Course: Data for Black Lives | Episode 1, Season 2
Video
May 9, 2021
Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in data weapons, no more building new data weapons, no more disguising data weapons as legitimate and neutral.
Crash Course Data weapons
Yeshimabeit Milner FAccT 2021 Keynote
Video
March 14, 2021
In this keynote address at the FAcct 2021 Conference, Founder & Executive Director Yeshimabeit Milner calls on researchers to do more than push for fairness, accountability and transparency-- but ...
Democracy Economic justice Data weapons
Detroit: On a Journey to Be Seen
Update
March 4, 2021
After struggling for decades against pervasive narratives and disinvestment, Detroiters are making policy work for them.
Introducing #NoMoreDataWeapons
Update
February 25, 2021
Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.
No More Data Weapons
Campaign
February 25, 2021
Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.
Data weapons
Black Health in America: Exploring Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Data
Update
February 24, 2021
Black people, overrepresented in COVID-19 deaths, are underrepresented in vaccinations.
What's up with FACIAL RECOGNITION? | Crash Course: Data for Black Lives | Episode 2, Season 1
Video
January 21, 2021
What's up with facial recognition? Facial recognition technology has become well integrated into so many parts of our lives. We unlock our phones with our face, Facebook can automatically recognize...
Crash Course Data weapons
What Even IS an Algorithm? | Crash Course: Data for Black Lives | Episode 1, Season 1
Video
January 21, 2021
What even is an algorithm? Algorithms seem to have this vice grip on our lives. However, most of us don't even know exactly what an algorithm is or does. Here at Data for Black Lives, we aim to fig...
Crash Course Algorithms
What is Abolition? | Crash Course: Data for Black Lives | Episode 3, Season 1
Video
January 21, 2021
What is abolition? More specifically, what does it mean to "abolish the police" or "abolish big data"? Why may we even want to abolish policing and big data? These phrases were thrown around a lot ...
Crash Course Abolition
What is PREDICTIVE POLICING? | Crash Course: Data for Black Lives | Episode 4, Season 1
Video
January 20, 2021
What is predictive policing? Well, if you've seen the movie Minority Report, you already have a bit of an idea. Predictive policing involves using algorithms to analyze massive amounts of informati...
Crash Course Data weapons
The 2020 Good Tech Awards
PressItem
December 29, 2020
Meet The Black Women Trying to Fix AI
PressItem
November 30, 2020
What is Data for Black Lives?
Video
September 1, 2020
Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people....
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Race and America: why data matters
PressItem
July 21, 2020
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
PressItem
July 16, 2020
Beyond Fairness and Ethics: Towards Agency and Shifting Power - A talk at The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Update
July 16, 2020
When we consider power imbalances between those who craft ML systems and those most vulnerable to the impacts of those systems, what is often enabling that power is the localization of control in t...
D4BL-DMV Virtual Panel: Equity Implications of COVID-19 in the DMV (6/25/2020)
Video
June 24, 2020
Learn about the disparate impact that Black and Brown communities in the DMV have been facing as a result of COVID-19, highlight the work that local DMV organizations are doing, and provide ways fo...
Organizing Social determinants
Coronavirus contact tracing apps aren’t worth the health risk to Black and Latinx people
PressItem
June 23, 2020
D4BL Movement Roundtable | Abolition & Self Determination
Event
June 17, 2020
1pm
We convened a roundtable of organizers, activists, and practitioners to discuss how we can organize, mobilize and coordinate in this moment and for the long haul. Together, we ask the questions - w...
Data governance Political education Abolition
D4BL Movement Roundtable | Abolition & Self Determination
Video
June 16, 2020
We convened a roundtable of organizers, activists, and practitioners to discuss how we can organize, mobilize and coordinate in this moment and for the long haul. Together, we ask the questions - w...
Political education Abolition Democracy
Advancing Community Engaged Approaches to Identifying Structural Drivers of Racial Bias in Health Diagnostic Algorithms
Report
May 31, 2020
Following an initial system dynamics workshop at the Data for Black Lives II conference hosted at MIT in January of 2019, a group of conference participants interested in building capabilities to use system dynamics to understand complex societal issues convened monthly to explore issues related to racial bias in AI and implications for health disparities through qualitative and simulation modeling.
Algorithms Participatory ML Research
Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minnesotans
Campaign
May 28, 2020
Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minneapolis -- Campaign to stop the Cradle to Prison Algorithm
Democracy Political education
The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Communities
Dataset
May 2, 2020
In this critical moment, COVID-19 data is being collected, released, analyzed, interpreted, and used to inform recovery and response efforts. D4BL has worked to consolidate state level data to expl...
Social determinants Political education
Data for Black Lives COVID-19 Movement Pulse Check and Roundtable Report
Report
April 29, 2020
On April 15, 2020 the Data for Black Lives Movement held a roundtable to serve as a pulse check for our movement. Today we release the report of this historic event, a culmination of voices and exp...
Social determinants Data weapons Political education
Movement Roundtable + Pulse Check: COVID-19
Event
April 15, 2020
1am
Social determinants Economic justice
D4BL Movement Roundtable + Pulse Check: COVID-19
Video
April 14, 2020
On April 15th, 2020, Data for Black Lives hosted a virtual roundtable and pulse check for our movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The roundtable features experts including Black epid...
Social determinants Economic justice
D4BL COVID-19 Disparities Tracker
Dataset
April 9, 2020
COVID-19 Black cases & deaths
Social determinants
Data for Black Lives - Covid-19 Data by Race
Dataset
April 7, 2020
States that are publicly reporting covid-19 cases by race
Social determinants
Data Intersections 2020 | The University of Miami Institute for Data Science & Computing
Video
February 20, 2020
Big Data is more than a collection of technologies, more than a revolution in measurement and prediction. It has become a philosophy, an ideological regime, one that determines how decisions are ma...
Abolition Data governance Algorithms
From Credit Scores to Job Applications: California's Reparations Task Force Looks to Algorithms
PressItem
February 2, 2020
Abolish Big Data
Video
December 30, 2019
Abolition means the creation of something new - the history of big data and a prophecy for big data abolition.
Abolition Data weapons
Why We Need Data For Black Lives
PressItem
December 10, 2019
Forbes 30 Under 30
PressItem
December 5, 2019
AI Now Institute: Confronting Black Boxes: A Shadow Report of the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force
Report
November 30, 2019
In 2017, New York City became the first US jurisdiction to create a task force to come up with recommendations for government use of Automated decision systems (ADS). This report is a community pow...
Data weapons Algorithms Data governance
What is Data Capitalism?
Video
May 20, 2019
Data for Black Lives and Demos released a groundbreaking new report addressing data capitalism and offering solutions that build power for Black and brown communities. In the age of "big data" and ...
Data governance Algorithms
Data for Black Lives Fast Facts
Video
April 27, 2019
Economic justice Social determinants
Algorithmic Justice: Race, Bias, and Big Data
Video
April 18, 2019
Speakers will discuss algorithms, race, and justice–the problems and the possibilities.
Algorithms Democracy Economic justice
24th Session of the OHCHR Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Event
March 27, 2019
5am
The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent public session Data for Racial Justice will be held in Geneva from 25-29 March 2019. This thematic session will involve specific focus on ...
Democracy Data weapons Political education
Abolish Big Data - UCI Bren ICS
Video
March 8, 2019
At the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Abstract: Bid Data is more than a collection of technologies, more than a revolution in measurement and prediction. It has beco...
Abolition Data governance
Datafication and Community Activism: Redrawing the Boundaries of Research
Event
March 8, 2019
5am
A workshop to held in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine Irvine, California
Abolition Data governance Education justice
AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
PressItem
January 20, 2019
Opening Remarks and Keynote Address
Video
January 18, 2019
Opening​ ​Remarks​ ​and​ ​Introduction​ ​of​ ​Keynote​ ​Speaker:​​ ​​Yeshimabeit​ ​Milner, D4BL​ ​Executive​ ​Director​ ​(10​ ​min) Keynote​ ​Address:​​ ​​Meredith Broussard​​ ​​(45​ ​min) Po...
Data governance Algorithms Democracy
D4BL II Welcome
Video
January 18, 2019
Opening​ ​Remarks​ ​and​ ​Introduction​ ​of​ ​Keynote​ ​Speaker:​​ ​​Yeshimabeit​ ​Milner, D4BL​ ​Executive​ ​Director​ ​(10​ ​min)
Abolition Political education Data weapons
The Just Data Cube (at D4BL II)
PressItem
January 13, 2019
D4BL II Farewell
Video
January 12, 2019
Organizing
We Will Be Counted: the 2020 Census
Video
January 12, 2019
There have been only 22 censuses in our nation's history. Every 10 years the data that is the result of nationwide count is used for redistricting, to allocate government funding and for research t...
Democracy Data governance
Closing Panel: What is a Movement Scientist?
Video
January 12, 2019
Defeating Jim Crow required an army of lawyers and a national legal strategy. But new forms of racism and oppression demand new forms of activism and resistance. And scientists are answering the ca...
Political education Democracy Organizing
Black People vs Robots: Reparations and Workers Rights in the Age of Automation
Video
January 12, 2019
In 2009, 13% of the US population were either self-employed or working as independent contractors, in 2016 this number had doubled. And from Silicon Valley to the US Supreme court, the rights of wo...
Economic justice Democracy
Pain, Place, and Race
Video
January 11, 2019
In cities like Chicago and Baltimore, where you live determines the length and quality of your life. Life expectancies range from the mid-80s in more affluent neighborhoods to 60s in the poorest co...
Economic justice Social determinants Political education Democracy
We are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For: Organizing for Algorithmic Accountability
Video
January 11, 2019
As algorithms and automated decisions continue to impact every aspect of our lives, in Black communities nationwide these decision-making systems animate already existing structures of oppression a...
Algorithms Data weapons Abolition
Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Education Justice and Mathematics
Video
January 11, 2019
Almost 65 years after the US Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v Board of Education, public education in this country remains fundamentally separate and unequal. In general, white children from afflue...
Education justice Economic justice Democracy
Abolition in the Age of Big Data
Video
January 11, 2019
Fingerprints, facial recognition, background checks, gang databases, FBI lists, social media surveillance, credit scores: data has always been central to the expansion of the prison industrial comp...
Abolition Economic justice Data weapons
“The seas are rising but so are the people”: Data, Disaster & Collective Power
Video
January 11, 2019
For many Black communities, a storm of policies and practices hit well before the first rains of Katrina, Harvey, Matthew or Florence. And everyday, these storms rage in plain sight. Climate change...
Climate justice Social determinants Democracy Data governance Economic justice
Abolish Big Data
Campaign
January 10, 2019
A call to action to dismantle the structures that concentrate the power of Big Data into the hands of a few and to put data in the hands of people who need it the most.
Abolition
D4BL II
Conference
January 10–12, 2019
This weekend we will turn a critical eye to the role that data and technology have played in Black communities. In panels, workshops, and over meals, we will chart out a bold new vision for the fut...
Data weapons Education justice Climate justice Data governance Democracy
Amazon is selling facial recognition software to the police - here's why it matters.
Video
May 31, 2018
In a country where we’re still trying to end the dangerous culture of racial profiling - from Starbucks to student lounges to public spaces - we won’t allow one of the biggest tech companies to use...
Data weapons Data governance Political education
An Open Letter to Facebook from the Data for Black Lives Movement
Campaign
April 3, 2018
Give Black researchers, data scientists and Black communities access to our data.
Data governance
MJ Salon: Big Data for Big Organizing: Reducing Harm and Advancing Justice
Video
March 13, 2018
Data, noun. Things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation. Data, often presented as objective and unbiased governs much of the public policy that affects the liv...
Data governance Political education
Data for Black Lives Is an Organization Using Analytics as a Tool for Social Change
PressItem
January 31, 2018
Data 4 Black Lives Catalog
Dataset
January 30, 2018
Catalog of datasets related underserved communities. An intermediate between community organizers and data scientists.
Organizing Political education
Data for Black Lives: How to Design Justice
PressItem
December 17, 2017
D4BL I Thank You
Video
December 14, 2017
Organizing Data governance Democracy
Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination
PressItem
December 12, 2017
Black Work, Black Wealth, Black Futures
Video
November 18, 2017
New innovations in technology are radically changing our economy. Self-driving cars are poised to transform the trucking industry, putting over eight million people at risk of losing their jobs. Ex...
Economic justice
The Revolution Will be Digitized: Music, Technology, and Black Cultural Production
Video
November 18, 2017
Black artists have shaped the history of American music and continue to do so every day. Virtually every form of popular music around the world has roots in the powerful African-American musical tr...
Economic justice
Closing Keynote and Farewell
Video
November 18, 2017
Keynote​ ​Address:​ ​​Ronald​ ​Sullivan Farewell:​ ​​Yeshimabeit​ ​Milner,​ ​Lucas​ ​Mason-Brown,​ ​and​ ​Max​ ​Clermont
Economic justice Political education
Building Black Political Power in the Age of Big Data
Video
November 17, 2017
In 2012, for the first time in American history, Black people had the highest rate of voter turnout of any racial or ethnic group. And advances in data and technology have created new opportunities...
Political education Data weapons
Opening Panel: Data for Black Lives
Video
November 17, 2017
Since the advent of computing, big data and algorithms have penetrated virtually every aspect of our social and economic lives. New data systems have tremendous potential to empower communities of ...
Algorithms Data governance Economic justice
Automating (In)justice: Policing and Sentencing in the Algorithm Age
Video
November 17, 2017
The U.S. incarcerates more people than any country in the world, and Black communities are disproportionately impacted by this mass incarceration. The disparities are staggering: although the major...
Economic justice Algorithms Data weapons
Where are the Black scientists?
Video
November 17, 2017
Black and brown people are vastly underrepresented in science, tech, and engineering. Although Black people report desiring to major in STEM at the same rate as their white counterparts, they are l...
Education justice
Code Black: Closing the Health Equity Gap
Video
November 17, 2017
The distribution of health and disease is not random. Health disparities between Blacks and whites run deep, no matter the age or ailment. Here are the facts: Blacks have a higher mortality rate th...
Social determinants
D4BL I
Conference
November 16–18, 2017
On November 17-19 2017 we brought together community members, organizers, academics, technologists, educators, artists, policy makers, and public servants for the inaugural Data for Black Lives conference at the MIT Media Lab.
Data weapons Democracy Algorithms Political education
Opening Remarks and Keynote Address
Video
November 16, 2017
Conference​ ​Welcome:​ ​​Rafael​ ​Reif,​ ​President​ ​of​ ​MIT​ ​(5​ ​min) Opening​ ​Remarks​ ​and​ ​Introduction​ ​of​ ​Keynote​ ​Speaker:​​ ​​Yeshimabeit​ ​Milner, D4BL​ ​Executive​ ​Director​...
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