By George Dvorsky, Gizmodo Three skeletons belonging to African individuals have been uncovered at a mass grave in Mexico City. They represent some of the first African people to arrive into slavery in the New World. An interdisciplinary analysis of these remains is shedding new light on this grim period of history and the harsh conditions […]
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This Ashanti prince became the First Black Mining Engineer in the world in the 1850s | Face2Face Africa
Born on April 24, 1827, Ghana’s Kwasi Boakye is the world’s first black mining engineer. The African-Dutch mining engineer was a prince of the Ashanti Empire and the eldest son of Kwaku Dua II, a king of the Ashanti kingdom. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In 1837, along with his cousin Kwame Poku, the prince left to pursue […]
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Facial recognition fails on race, government study says | BBC News
A US government study suggests facial recognition algorithms are far less accurate at identifying African-American and Asian faces compared to Caucasian faces. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] African-American females were even more likely to be misidentified, it indicated. It throws fresh doubt on whether such technology should be used by law enforcement agencies. One critic called the results […]
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Day First Woman to Earn Computer Science Ph.D. at N.C. A&T | North Carolina A&T University
Day, received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Winston-Salem State University, where Elva Jones, one of the first black women to earn a doctorate in computer science, mentored her.
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Uber Partners with D.C. on the Future of Urban Mobility | AFRO
Community stakeholders, transportation nerds and a full bullpen of local and national media gathered to hear Mayor Bowser, Khosrowshahi and Goldsmith discuss everything from the importance of social equity and job creation for the city’s underserved communities to the future of autonomous vehicles in the urban landscape.
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Meet the Young Black Entrepreneurs Taking on Tinder | Time
The creators of black dating app Bae are calling out biased investors.
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