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The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s recent decision to dismiss a case brought by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre is a powerful reminder that American legal and political institutions can engineer unjust futures from unjust pasts.

By Mark Keierleber  (EXCERPT) ‘New Jim Code’: Federal officials have failed to deter the civil rights harms that artificial intelligence in schools poses to students of color, a new report argues. | The Center for Law and Social Policy Read the full article here. 

By Lauraine Langreo  (EXCERPT) “One of the things we have seen is that a lot of those COVID-era funds have been used to procure a lot of these technologies,” said Clarence Okoh, one of the leaders of the coalition and a senior policy counsel for…

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An op-ed written by Clarence Okoh about artificial intelligence and surveillance in schools appeared in The Hill.

By CLARENCE OKOH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR EXCERPT: Last month, the White House announced its highly anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the Biden administration missed another critical opportunity to address the AI civil rights crisis unfolding across Black communities nationwide. Read the full article here.

Clarence Okoh was quoted about policymakers’ lack of understanding of artificial intelligence and civil rights implications.

Clarence Okoh was featured in this article.

Clarence Okoh "talked about how the laws designed to protect student privacy don’t think about civil rights protection, and that this data is often used to discriminate against student populations."

Clarence Okoh was quoted in this article: “We need to understand that these technologies are showing up within a long-standing historical continuum of racial injustice and racial hierarchy within our communities."