Join the club, read and discuss The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Bennett explores twin sisters who are separated by their embrace of different racial identities. The mixed-race identical twins...
The hiring process is a critical gateway to economic opportunity, determining who can access consistent work to support themselves and their families. Employers have long used digital technology to...
Join the club, read, and discuss Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward! Ward, a two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and...
Join us in this hour long science activity for some nature’s magic! Observe how changes happen in front of us, from bubble-making reactions in the kitchen, to fun recipes making slimes, you can even...
HopIn Virtual Conference Software Racial profiling by banks against African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities who are trying to qualify for the lowest priced home or auto loans has been a fact...
Google Meet Join the ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳ Office of Community Affairs virtual book club and read Dead Land by Sara Paretsky, a NY Times best selling author! "Dead Land is the latest of Sara Paretsky’s swift...
Please join us virtually for a presentation of the new book Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975, co-authored by IIT professor Michelangelo Sabatino and historian and preservationist Susan...
Computers may not have biases, but the algorithms that run on them are created by people who do, whether it's explicit or not. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley determined the...
Seed & Spark In collaboration with the Chicago South Side Film Festival, the Office of Community Affairs presents the film No Lye-An American Beauty Story on September 25 at 7pm. This film chronicles...
The first of a four-part series looking at Technology and Social Justice. This virtual hour-long discussion will explore Facial Recognition Technology and Law Enforcement's use of the flawed data it...
