Dispatch

Updates on D4BL Projects

Abolish FICO

Yeshimabeit Milner

August 17, 2023

Remarks of Founder & CEO Yeshimabeit Milner at the White House Roundtable on Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices

No Humans Involved

Yeshimabeit Milner

September 14, 2022

The battle for the soul of AI is not about preventing tech from becoming human but about preventing AI from being used to define who is human and who is not.

Abolition Algorithms

Black Health in America: Exploring Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Data

Jamelle Watson- Daniels

February 25, 2021

Black people, overrepresented in COVID-19 deaths, are underrepresented in vaccinations.

Introducing #NoMoreDataWeapons

Paul Watkins

February 26, 2021

Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.

Detroit: On a Journey to Be Seen

After struggling for decades against pervasive narratives and disinvestment, Detroiters are making policy work for them.

Tawana Petty March 05, 2021

Data for Black Lives and Brennan Center Sue DC Police for Surveillance Records

Our DMV Hub has spent months working with the Brennan Center to push for transparency and accountability from the MPD regarding their social media monitoring policies. Today we explicitly and publicly name MPD's use of social media as the weaponization of data.

Data for Black Lives March 01, 2022