Clarence Okoh argues that AI's use of texts published by enslaved people parallels the colonial plunder of African artifacts.

The NOTICE Coalition Takeover Surveillance: How NDAUWU Fellows Used Cultural Organizing to Resist State Surveillance & Social Control in Texas Schools The No DATA About Us Without Us Fellowship: An …

AI is raising the stakes on criminal justice reform. Author: Yolanda Botti-Lodovico Philanthropy can help bend the arc toward equity and civil rights. AI is complicating criminal justice reform in …

Big Tech is known to “move fast and break things.” But who is left in pieces? Residents in Baltimore County recently witnessed a new technology nearly shatter a child’s life. Last week, a squad of police officers pulled out their weapons and

Here, Chelsea Barabas and Clarence Okoh (a 2022 Just Tech Fellow) reflect on the work of the No Data about Us without Us Fellowship (NDAUWU), a program of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization in Education and the Edgelands Institute. This

Youth Surveillance and Digital Liberation Seeds of Kinship: Building Intergenerational Advocacy for Digital Liberation What does it mean for children to learn on land where Black life has long been …

The NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization in Education “No Data About Us Without Us”: An Afrofuturist Reflection on Building Grassroots Infrastructures for Digital Liberation Who Do You Call …

The marketing of AI-driven surveillance solutions to schools is outpacing administrators’ capacity to establish good policies, says a team of researchers.

Artificial intelligence in Philly government is a black box: There is no public process for communities to review proposed tech and determine if it’s truly safe for us — let alone beneficial.

This episode features “EWA Radio: Student Data Privacy as a Civil Rights Issue,” recorded live on March 9 at the SXSW EDU Conference in Austin, Texas.Panel descriptionSchools collect lots of information about students – health records, attendance,…

Educators and community members across the country joined us on Feb. 16 to learn how they can take care of undocumented students and staff.

We closed our AI-focused main stage sessions with Unpacking How Long-Standing Civil Rights Protections Apply to Emerging Technologies like AI, which brought Elizabeth Laird, director of the Equity in Civic Technology Initiative at the Center for…

The Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is conducting a study to examine the civil rights impact of the rising use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education. In this ongoing study, the Committee will consider how…

As a civil rights attorney who investigates how new technologies violate the rights of communities of color, I’ve seen these challenges play out in stunning ways.

School districts: Don’t fail your students by using facial recognition.

59 Ct. Rev. 10 (2023) The Dilemma of Black Coding: Assessing Algorithmic Discrimination Legislation in the United States HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage…

Supreme Court Upholds Race-Conscious Admissions for Higher Education The Supreme Court of the United States recently issued its highly anticipated ruling in Fisher v Texas, upholding the …

Race and Redistricting After the Gill Decision Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in the much-anticipated partisan gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford. In this …