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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…