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We Need to Expand Our Ideas About Black Homicide

Murder and brutality by police are a problem in Black communities. However, that is not the only threat to Black men. The death of Tyre Nicols after a brutal beating by five Memphis cops would have been yet another story in a long line of sad civil escapades of Black…

BlackLivesMatter

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We Need to Expand Our Ideas About Black Homicide
We Need to Expand Our Ideas About Black Homicide
BlackLivesMatter

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Money is More Powerful than Altruism

Money can make even the most committed us reconsider our stance. When Deion Sanders arrived at Jackson State in 2020, he promised to bring exposure and visibility to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This was good news not only for Jackson State, but his presence would bring a badly…

Deion Sanders

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Money is More Powerful than Altruism
Money is More Powerful than Altruism
Deion Sanders

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Feb 26

Opportunities Exist in the Technology Industry for Black Women

Information technology, including cybersecurity, is a career that forecasts tremendous growth for high-paying jobs well into the future. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts technology jobs will grow by 22 percent from 2020 to 2030. Most of these 2.1 million jobs will go unfilled, and a significant gap remains…

Stem Education

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Opportunities Exist in the Technology Industry for Black Women
Opportunities Exist in the Technology Industry for Black Women
Stem Education

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Feb 5

Book Review: “AI Ethics,” by Mark Coeckelbergh

Explores the moral, spiritual, and philosophical side of AI. For those who envision a future of AI to bring about a dystopian, barren landscape world run by robots with absolutely no use for humans, reading AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh should be a breath of fresh air. …

AI

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Book Review: “AI Ethics,” by Mark Coeckelbergh
Book Review: “AI Ethics,” by Mark Coeckelbergh
AI

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Jan 14

What Does Musical Taste Indicate About Us?

Music taste reveals a lot about us — but don’t take it too far. During a conversation addressing the question, “What is one of your most important musical experiences?” I was mocked for revealing my first real musical experience: The Beatle's appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. My fellow African…

Music

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What Does Musical Taste Indicate About Us?
What Does Musical Taste Indicate About Us?
Music

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Dec 31, 2022

Book Review: Divine Blue Light

Don't show this collection if you like to spread interest in poetry. If someone had handed me the poetry book Divine Blue Light for John Coltrane by Will Alexander, I would have never read a book of poetry in my life. This book, by a person touted as a Pulitzer…

Poems

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Book Review: Divine Blue Light
Book Review: Divine Blue Light
Poems

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Nov 13, 2022

Atlanta: A groundbreaking show ends appropriately — with us scratching our heads!

The surrealist television show is an instant classic and will be missed. Watching the first episode of Atlanta hooked me. Two scenes reeled me in. From the very first scene, the confrontation in the parking lot outside a nightclub between the three protagonists, Ern, Paper Boy, Darius, and a young…

Donald Glover

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Atlanta: A groundbreaking show ends appropriately — with us scratching our heads!
Atlanta: A groundbreaking show ends appropriately — with us scratching our heads!
Donald Glover

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Oct 24, 2022

Bias In, Bias Out

Is AI and machine learning helping to perpetuate bias? We hear and read much about how AI is not a technology that will help eliminate the bias of race, gender, and culture. AI seems to mirror the entranced racial norms that exist in atomic (as opposed to digital) reality. There…

AI

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Bias In, Bias Out
Bias In, Bias Out
AI

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Oct 12, 2022

Stop Making Dozens of Passwords

All you Really Need is One Strong Password — stop playin’ In 2008, my wife purchased my first biometric computer as a gift for me. I registered my fingers on both hands just in case I lost one of those hands, and the system worked fine. I was a little…

Passwords

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Stop Making Dozens of Passwords
Stop Making Dozens of Passwords
Passwords

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Aug 14, 2022

Delusional

The MAGA crowd is desperately holding on to a world that never existed. The political and racial division in America is so deep-seated into our culture, not even palpable truth can uproot this invasive social disease. The political climate raises questions about the possibility of violence. However, we are way…

BlackLivesMatter

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Delusional
Delusional
BlackLivesMatter

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Thomas Holt Russell

Thomas Holt Russell

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Humanist, educator, writer, photographer, and modern-day Luddite. http://thomasholtrussell.zenfolio.com/ My writing is a living organism.

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