Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
Category: Black People
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Jim Brown Should Be Seen Fully, Flaws and All
Brown, who died on Thursday, demanded that people see more to him than strong athletic performances. In the 1960s, that was unusual for athletes.
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Jim Brown Set Records With the Cleveland Browns Then Left on Top
In the fraternity of N.F.L. standouts, Brown was revered for his dominance on the field and for his willingness to walk away on his own terms.
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Jim Brown, Football Great and Civil Rights Champion, Dies at 87
After a Hall of Fame career in the N.F.L., he pursued social activism and Hollywood stardom, but his image was stained by accusations of abuse toward women.
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I.R.S. Acknowledges Black Americans Face More Audit Scrutiny
The commissioner, Daniel Werfel, said the agency was working to correct unfairness in the enforcement of the tax code.
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Hip-Hop’s Next Takeover: Bisa Butler’s Quilts
Bisa Butler’s new show translates both photographs of Black figures and hip-hop lyrics into intricate textile art.
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Once an Evangelist for Airbnbs, She Now Crusades for Affordable Housing
Precious Price ditched her profitable business of renting home stays to tourists to combat the mounting housing crisis.
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Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds
Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine.
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Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86
A flamboyant mezzo-soprano (who could also sing meaty soprano roles), she overcame racial prejudice to become one of opera’s first, and biggest, Black stars.