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Data Days
October 22nd, 2024
Artificial Intelligence: The Risks and Benefits To Peace and Social Justice Peace Talks Radio
September 1st, 2024
MPD Hands Over Records of Social Media Surveillance of D.C. Activism DC Open Government Coalition
June 7, 2024
Documents Expose How DC Police Surveil Protest Activity, Social Media Profiles Truthout
May 3, 2024
A.I. Evolution Creates New Form of Online Sexual Abuse Black Enterprise
May 2, 2024
AI has created a new form of sexual abuse Vox
May 2, 2024
Over decade of Washington, D.C., protests, police scanned social media for ‘disrupters’ Statescoop
May 1, 2024
Documents Reveal How DC Police Surveil Social Media Profiles and Protest Activity Brennan Center for Justice
April 30, 2024
DC Metropolitan Police Department Social Media Monitoring Documents Brennan Center for Justice
April 30, 2024
Philanthropy’s Crucial Role in Advancing Inclusive AI Partnership on AI
April 11, 2024
Massive benefits of AI come with environmental and human costs. Can AI itself be part of the solution? Leaps.org
September 7, 2023
Readout of White House Roundtable on Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices The White House
August 15, 2023
Announcing the second round of grantees from the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund Wikimedia Foundation
August 2, 2023
33 Leaders Standing Up to Big Tech in the Age of A.I. The Chronicle of Philanthropy
July 30, 2023
Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say The Verge
July 13, 2021
The 2020 Good Tech Awards The New York Times
December 29, 2020
Meet The Black Women Trying to Fix AI POCIT
November 30, 2020
Race and America: why data matters Financial Times
July 21, 2020
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled. MIT Technology Review
July 16, 2020
Coronavirus contact tracing apps aren’t worth the health risk to Black and Latinx people The Boston Globe
June 23, 2020
From Credit Scores to Job Applications: California's Reparations Task Force Looks to Algorithms KQED
February 2, 2020
Why We Need Data For Black Lives Forbes
December 10, 2019
Forbes 30 Under 30 Forbes
December 5, 2019
AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong MIT Technology Review
January 20, 2019
The Just Data Cube (at D4BL II) The MIT Center for Civic Media
January 13, 2019
Data for Black Lives Is an Organization Using Analytics as a Tool for Social Change Vice Garage
January 31, 2018
Data for Black Lives: How to Design Justice Daily Kos
December 17, 2017
Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination MIT News
December 12, 2017