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Alfredo Lopez and Jackie Smith

BC Guest Commentators Jackie Smith, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, is a founder of the International Network of Scholar/Activists and a leader of May First/People Link. Alfredo Lopez writes about technology for This Can't Be Happening! as a member of the collective.

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Guest Commentary

An Emancipation Proclamation for the Digital Age

By Alfredo Lopez and Jackie Smith Guest Commentators

It's daunting to be a person of color in public situations and debates on the internet and Black people take the brunt of that repressive beating. As a result, Black people tend to congregate and participate only on certain types of websites while not doing much more than "surfing” the rest of the Net.

We just celebrated "Juneteenth" (the start of the end of slavery in the U.S.) amid tumultuous and sometimes confusing politics and what appears to be an…

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