The AI Civil Rights Era Has Begun: What Black Leaders Need to Know in 2026
Here is what happened while the discourse was still debating whether AI was overhyped.A hospital algorithm used by millions of patients determined that Black...
Literacy Was Always the Gate. AI Just Renamed It
In 1898, a Black man in Louisiana walked into a registrar's office to vote. He was handed a section of the state constitution and...
A Century of Commemoration, A Decade of Automation: How AI Could Rewrite Black Economic Mobility
Before Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week, he worked in coal mines.This is not the part of his biography that gets repeated in...
The Myth of the Objective Machine
Today, we often hear that artificial intelligence is objective, neutral, and free from the flaws of human judgment. AI is usually seen as an...
When AI Becomes the Voice of the Dead
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we think about memory, identity, and death. One striking use of AI is its ability to recreate the...
Inside the AI Arms Race at Work
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work, leading to what some describe as an "arms race" between people and advanced machines. As...
Policing by Prediction: When AI Decides Who Looks Suspicious
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has started playing a bigger role in law enforcement, aiming to make policing safer and more efficient. Predictive...
The College Degree After AI: Credential or Relic
The college degree has never been just a piece of paper. It has been power—quiet, normalized power. Power to sort people. Power to delay...
The Rise of Invisible Labor: Who Trains the Machines?
Artificial intelligence is often described as self-learning, autonomous, and increasingly independent of human input. The language itself suggests inevitability, as if intelligence simply emerged...