Photo credit: Elaine Chung From Esquire I watched Rocky for the first time last weekend, and if you’ve ever seen a truly iconic classic film in adulthood, you know how strange it can be. I’d never seen the movie before, and yet by osmosis, I had. I knew the broader […]
Minority
A Black woman known as a “rare voice of public criticism” at Google has been fired by the tech company after sending an internal email calling out the company’s treatment of minority employees—and in particular, those who are Black and female. Timnit Gebru, who co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team […]
Iraqi immigrant Ethar Kakoz, a contact tracer for the COVID-19 virus, sits for a portrait Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in El Cajon, Calif. Kakoz is among a growing legion of ethnically and racially diverse contact tracers hired by local health departments to bridge the cultural divide in the United States […]