Fuck this guy. He and Byron Donalds deserve each other.

#blackmastodon https://newsone.com/5295198/byron-donalds-jim-crow-black-family-civil-rights-activist-bob-woodson/

Byron Donalds Was ‘Right’ About Jim Crow And The Black Family, Civil Rights Activist Bob Woodson Says

Civil rights activist Bob Woodson defended Rep. Byron Donalds' claims that Black families were better off under Jim Crow than they are now.

^{Editor at NewsOne (NewsOne)}

Girl please.

You already permanently banned from every cookout and every Black beauty shop.

You about to be banned from Beyonce concerts,the liquor store and every Juneteenth,MLK Day and Black History Month event.

For life.

Fuck off.

#blackmastodon
https://share.newsbreak.com/77zxfecs

Former ESPN Host Sage Steele Doesn't Hold Back Thoughts On Black National Anthem

Former ESPN host Sage Steele made her opinion of the Black National Anthem very clear on Thursday afternoon. During a conversation with musician Reggie Watts on The...

^{Andrew McCarty (The Spun)}

Bullshit.

He's claiming that Black men and gangbangers love Trump because he "got charges" like they do.

Fuck you,50.

#blackmastodon #trump #uspolitics https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/50-cent-says-black-men-identifying-with-trump-over-legal-woes-theyve-got-rico-charges-too/

Because they hate Black women.

Because they hate Black people unless they're "the help" and live in Oakland.

#blackmastodon #sanfrancisco #california #bayarea
https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-racist-sexist-graffiti/14915604/
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SF Mayor London Breed says racist, sexist graffiti outside city hall aimed at her

San Francisco Mayor London Breed says she was the target of racist and sexist graffiti painted on city hall overnight.

^{ABC7 San Francisco}

We want you to know the name Alice Ball. She was the first woman and first African American to earn a master’s degree in science from the College of Hawaii.

Ball remarkably developed a treatment for leprosy, but she passed away shortly after.

Arthur Dean, chair of the College of Hawaii’s chemistry department, took over the project, and renamed Ball’s method to the “Dean Method,” never crediting Ball for her work.

https://theconversation.com/a-young-black-scientist-discovered-a-pivotal-leprosy-treatment-in-the-1920s-but-an-older-colleague-took-the-credit-224922
#History #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.

^{The Conversation}

Today is the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history – and one that continues to haunt Americans.

One of them is Gregory Fairchild, whose grandfather was caught up in it, and whose family history personally inspires his work.

(From 2021): https://theconversation.com/100-years-after-the-tulsa-race-massacre-lessons-from-my-grandfather-161391

#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Histodons @histodons

100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather

More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous Black section of Tulsa known as the ‘Black Wall Street.’ For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.

^{The Conversation}

Beethoven is A great composer, but not THE great composer, according to a music professor who believes it’s time to reframe Beethoven’s greatness “within the context of historic ideals of whiteness and patriarchy.”

“If Americans could acknowledge that our music and music education are deeply rooted in these two ideologies, then we could realize that Beethoven, surely a good composer, was simply one of many.”

https://theconversation.com/was-beethoven-truly-the-greatest-229660
#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Music

An undisputed truth.

#BlackMastodon

💛 “The First Allies of George Floyd”

This editor’s letter was originally published by OHF Weekly on April 2, 2021. We reproduce it in its entirety to commemorate the third anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s death.

#BlackMastodon #GeorgeFloyd #RacialEquity #Allyship #Inclusion

@BigAngBlack
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social
@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe

https://www.ohfweekly.org/e-vol-5-no-19/

The First Allies of George Floyd

^{Clay Rivers (OHF WEEKLY)}

This...

#BlackMastodon
https://wordinblack.com/2024/05/dont-be-fooled-by-trumps-ops-in-the-bronx/?s=09

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Ops in the Bronx

The park where the rally happened is represented by Ritchie Torres, an Afro-Latino gay man, who says Trump is “less popular than arsenic."

^{Keith Boykin (Word In Black)}

But some Blacks still idolize Trump and plan to vote for him.

#BlackMastodon
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-black-voters-myth-reality-election-20240517.html

Four myths I’ve heard from Black Trump supporters — and the reality that contradicts them

Biden has invested roughly 28 times more into HBCUs than Trump has. Trump is no champion of prison reform. And the former president’s business prowess is an illusion.

^{Jenice Armstrong (The Philadelphia Inquirer)}

Although companies have created detectors to help spot #deepfakes, studies have found that biases in the data used to train these tools can lead to certain demographic groups being unfairly targeted.

A team of researchers discovered new methods that improve both the fairness and the accuracy of these detection algorithms by teaching them about human diversity

https://theconversation.com/deepfake-detection-improves-when-using-algorithms-that-are-more-aware-of-demographic-diversity-226061
#technology #engineering #bias @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity

New research found a way to both improve the accuracy of deepfake detection algorithms while also enhancing fairness.

^{The Conversation}