A Refreshing, Highly Melanated ‘Hamlet’ With a Reasonable Run Time

The first Hamlet movie that comes to mind has always been Kenneth Branagh’s full-text adaptation. I only remember it because I watched his word-for-word version of the William Shakespeare tragedy in high school English. It was four hours. It took us four days to get...

‘Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines’ by Joy Buolamwini

AI is all that anyone can talk about, but no one is really saying anything. Enter Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. As a graduate student at MIT's Media Lab, Buolamwini was doing work on facial...

Celebrating Autumn Durald Arkapaw’s Historic Oscar Win and Ryan Coogler’s Vision of an Inclusive Hollywood

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