Carla Bell – Medium

Published in THE PUBLIC MAGAZINE

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The Technocratic Dream Of A “Cashless Society” Entrenches Inequities

“Civil liberties are going to be absolutely thrown into disarray.” — Walking near my hotel one evening in Washington, D.C., I came upon an older Black man sitting on the ground, searching the faces of passersby, sometimes asking for money. I had one large bill. (This was in the before-time, when we had no broad knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Cashless Society

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Cashless Society

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Oct 21, 2021

This communication is subsequent to an unanswered question presented to you about the nature of…

This communication is subsequent to an unanswered question presented to you about the nature of your ideas which are hidden through anonymity on a social platform. Your methods and motives will be questioned largely because of your decision to hide. Expect it. These questions are neither engagement, nor harassment.

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Mar 29, 2021

nds its a…d some work, anything really. It is a thoughtful and affecting drama that reminds its audience that we are all crushed by the gravity of money, whether we want to talk about it or not.

Americans Are Obsessed With Money But Rarely Talk Honestly About It

John DeVore

Related, Ilse Hogan Griffin's "Scarcity and Other White Lies" (edited by me).

Related, Ilse Hogan Griffin's "Scarcity and Other White Lies" (edited by me). https://maydaymagazine.com/scarcity-and-other-white-lies-by-ilse-hogan-griffin/

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Related, Ilse Hogan Griffin's "Scarcity and Other White Lies" (edited by me). https://maydaymagazine.com/scarcity-and-other-white-lies-by-ilse-hogan-griffin/

Mar 25, 2021

…ecisely, a white-Mexican and broadly a white-Latinx person. Sadly, yet predictably to Black-Latinx, I was devastated to discover that I am racially white. I felt a wave of emotions, including guilt, shame, confusion, and anger — all connected to the noti…

Why ‘White-Passing’ Is White Supremacy

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Joey Pierre

Gotta be real.

Gotta be real. I read this sentence several times, laughing out loud. I feel ya, tho. I do. 😏 Outstanding, btw.

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Gotta be real. I read this sentence several times, laughing out loud. I feel ya, tho. I do. 😏 Outstanding, btw.

Published in Technology Hits

·Mar 5, 2021

Managed Out by Anti-Bias Tools: The Selective Service of Recruitment AI

In September 2019, I was in Washington, D.C. for The Atlantic Festival, and fell in love with the city. I began applying for journalism jobs there. One company invited me to an interview process, where artificial intelligence software would be a required component in three out of four steps. As a black woman past the age of 40, I knew I was highly susceptible to biases built into this software, even as a member of a triple-protected class with a background in law, computer technology, and intellectual property. …

Algorithms

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Managed Out by Anti-Bias Tools: The Selective Service of Recruitment AI

Algorithms

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Feb 24, 2021

Civics 101: The Shame of Mt. Rushmore

ON AMERICA’S INCREDIBLY LOW BAR FOR HONORING DEAD WHITE GUYS — This story was first published at Terra Incognita Media. ON AMERICA’S INCREDIBLY LOW BAR FOR HONORING DEAD WHITE GUYS Many of this nation’s towering figures are propped up by selective, revisionist, and fictional histories: young George Washington who “could not tell a lie”; Thomas Jefferson, a man for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”; Theodore Roosevelt, the naturalist Nobel…

George Washington

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George Washington

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Sep 12, 2020

#JournalismSoWhite: DEI Is MIA In American Media — Forbes

The New York Post has come under fire for racial bias in two stories. The first titled “Trayvon Martin had traces of marijuana in system at time of death, autopsy reveals” presents 17-year-old Martin, black, unarmed, and murdered near his home in 2012, with a negative, or prejudicial, bias. The…

Journalism

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Journalism

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Aug 25, 2020

Black Americans should hold the adoration — Kamala Harris has done real damage | Miami Herald OpEd

There’s an opinion that’s been kept fairly silent in the present political climate and mainstream conversation about Sen. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick. …

Black Lives Matter

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Black Americans should hold the adoration — Kamala Harris has done real damage | Opinion

Black Lives Matter

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Published in Books Are Our Superpower

·Aug 11, 2020

50 Years Later, the Demands of “The Black Manifesto” Are Still Unmet — Electric Literature

One Sunday in the spring of 1969, James Forman walked into the sanctuary of Riverside Church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, barreled his way to the pulpit, commandeered the microphone, and before many wide-eyed and captive congregants, declared: Underneath all of this exploitation, the racism of this country…

NAACP

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50 Years Later, the Demands of “The Black Manifesto” Are Still Unmet — Electric Literature

NAACP

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Jul 26, 2020

Win Win Coffee Bar is Pushing Through Uncertainty and Paving the Way (On the Line)

Win Win Coffee Bar is a tucked-away, uniquely local experience built with creatives in mind. Longtime friends and co-owners Matt Namaste and Nikisha Bailey draw inspiration from the people and the culture of Philadelphia’s traditionally Black, but steadily gentrifying, neighborhoods of Spring Garden and Callowhill. For Bailey, an executive with…

Black Lives Matter

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Win Win Coffee Bar is Pushing Through Uncertainty and Paving the Way (On the Line)

Black Lives Matter

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