ann daramola's canvas is the world wide web, and her tools are pixels, code, words, and design all of which she uses to create and amplify stories of the tenacious brilliance of Black Africans and everyone who loves them. She occupies the dynamic intersections of technology, rhetoric, spirituality, and commerce.
As Black and non-Black people of color in America, making tech often isolates us from our communities, but I think tech-making should be a community thing, accessible to all spectrum of abilities, languages, modes of engagement, classes, races, ethnicities, ages,...
Read HereIf your engagement with any Black reality begins or ends with social media, traditional media, or anything accessible on the American internet in general, you have, at best, an incomplete set of Black realities. There are depths of Blackness that...
Read HereHey I'm a Black woman in tech. As a largely self-taught software engineer professional working in the American tech industry, I'm always looking for new ways to improve my skills and professionalism in my career. The tech industry moves quickly,...
Read HereGrowing up in the church, we had this thing called “intercessory prayer.” I was fascinated by the idea of "standing in the gap" for people who, for whatever reason, did not have enough power to move power. That's something beyond...
Read HereEmpires will, as empires have, weaponize every thing they touch to maintain power. Every. Thing. Including you. The ability to look at a true thing, to hold it and proclaim it, is a power not many people with empire’s privileges...
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