Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.
This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.
The Black to the Future Public Policy Institute is a policy advocacy and leadership training fellowship that provides the tools needed to transform Black communities into constituencies that wield independent, Black political power at the municipal, state, and federal level.
Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world. let’s change tech for good. When we center Black technologists at every stage of our work, tech is better and so is our world.
The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.