SMC Archives Collection Highlights: Black Impact

This SMC Library Research Guide is a collection of resources related to Black History. The Research Guide has been created to accompany the SMC Black Lives Matter Subcommittee's 2021 44 Days: Honoring Black History.

Watch the documentary "Coded Bias" with us!

Coded Bias Film Screening and DiscussionCoded Bias movie poster: a haunting white mask over a Black person's eyes, with a keyboard in shadows. A Shalini Kantayya Film.

Wednesday, February 17
5-7 PM

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Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

Discussion with attendees will follow the 90-minute screening. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome!

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Contact: Gina Kessler Lee, 925-631-4413, gkl2@stmarys-ca.edu

 

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