Month: June 2020
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Announcing the Black Studies Minor
In the past few weeks, catalyzed by the police murder of George Floyd, a powerful mass movement has emerged against the lethality of antiblack racism. People, including many in our community, have taken to the streets to hold racist structures accountable, calling for the defunding, demilitarization, and disbanding of the police as a necessary means…
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Artist-Made Tools Resist Algorithmic Racism and Empower Communities
by Theadora Walsh Last week Eric Yuan, CEO of the now exhaustingly ever-present video conference company Zoom, told investors that Zoom would not offer encryption services to free users. Why? Because of Zoom’s commitment to supporting and aiding the FBI and local police officers. As social distancing requires unprecedented reliance on the internet, and the ongoing Black Lives Matter…