Artificial intelligence (AI) work technologies have been lauded for their efficiency, cost savings, and ability to democratize access to work. Indeed, AI work technologies make a “planetary labor market” possible. […]

This Essay draws connections between Octavia Butler’s Parable series (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents), HBO’s Westworld, and Derrick Bell’s Faces at the Bottom of the Well: […]

If you are old enough to remember the song that inspired the title of this Essay, then you might already be vibing out to its potential. In Afrofuturistic fashion, I […]

Afrofuturism seems to be everywhere these days. It’s front and center in the award-winning fiction of N. K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. It’s in the pop music of Janelle Monáe and Outkast […]

“Earthling?” I jump and bump my head on the underside of a bookshelf. It is a quiet Monday in late summer, right before the start of the school year. I […]

This Essay examines Africana Black existential conditions of Afrofuturity and some of the expectations they may pose for justifying the law. The discussion summarizes the Sankofic dimensions of this kind […]

In one of Afrofuturist musician Sun Ra’s songs, June Tyson chants: “When the Black man ruled this land, Pharaoh was sitting on his throne.” This illustrates a common theme in […]

Across the United States, algorithmic tools are proliferating throughout the criminal legal system, with more than 3,000 jurisdictions in the United States using some sort of predictive technology to determine […]

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, so-called essential workers from minoritized racial and ethnic groups were disproportionately subjected to workplace indignities that resembled, in the words of Keeanga-Yamahtta […]

I see inequity wherever it exists, call it by name, and work to eliminate it. Dr. Shalon MauRene Irving—the proud author of this Twitter bio— championed medical equity. The thirty-six-year-old epidemiologist […]