Dispatch

Updates on D4BL Projects

D4BL III Conference Fellow Open Call

Data for Black Lives

August 8, 2024

Application Closes: Sunday, September 15, 2024

D4BL III Request for Workshop Proposals

Data for Black Lives

August 8, 2024

Submission Deadline: Sunday, September 29

Meet the Inaugural D4BL Movement Scientist Fellows

Data for Black Lives

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 critical practitioners who center issues of liberation, equity, and justice in the creation and deployme...

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Apartheid Is an Algorithm

Yeshimabeit Milner

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

Abolish FICO

Remarks of Founder & CEO Yeshimabeit Milner at the White House Roundtable on Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices

Yeshimabeit Milner August 16, 2023

No Humans Involved

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.

Yeshimabeit Milner September 13, 2022

Abolition Algorithms

Beyond Fairness and Ethics: Towards Agency and Shifting Power - A talk at The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

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 the hands of tech companies and technical experts who consolidate power using claims to perceived sci...

Jamelle Watson- Daniels July 16, 2020

Black Health in America: Exploring Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Data

Black people, overrepresented in COVID-19 deaths, are underrepresented in vaccinations.

Jamelle Watson- Daniels February 24, 2021