probably changed him. >> it was a great period of anxiety for me. i was worried that i would never get another shot. >> he was not at all happy. he thought his career was over. xxxxx . when we see the old black and white movies of the fight for civil rights, it is easy to forget that we are still right in the middle of it. but racists took an offering on to the information super highway. this is not just an episode of television. this is a recruitment video. black folks, we need you to be scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians and future imagine nay tors. we have these already, but we need a lot more. it is like john lewis said.

get into this great revolution that is sweeping the nation. get in and stay in the streets. it is not just the physical streets. black folks now have to fight the civil rights fight in the internet streets. ♪ ♪ if we're looking to find black folks who are ready to take on the challenge of changing the world, we might as well head to atlanta. from the king to abrams, this place just sweats black excellence. civil rights to voters rights. but it also has a rapidly growing tech sector. there is no better place to ask

how can us black folks play a role in creating a future when technology is working overtime to hold us back. who owns these tech companies? what do they look like? what's at stake if we don't take action? everything. we are literally in mlk stomping grounds. his church where he pastored at over there, the church where raphael warnock right there. what do you think about when we're in this space? >> when king was alive. it was hard things. jim crow was you can't be at the water fountain. you can't go to this school. you can't buy this house, right? now in this algorithmic age, the logic that drive the algorithm are the ideology of white supremacy. >> she is the ceo of ai for the people. permission, eliminate the

underrepresentation of black professionals in the american technology sector by 2030. no biggie. >> and it's so frustrating for advocates because we have to keep convincing people that we're being discriminated against in the ways that we always have been, but algorithmic violence, technical injustice are the modern civil rights issue of our time. >> luckily, she is not alone in recognizing the need to address the problem this newer, stronger, digitized form of racism and discrimination. >> first of all, let me be a proper southern gentleman. >> spot on. >> this tea is not sweet tea. >> it's not. that's why i put it on the floor. >> dr. marshall is a computer scientist, educator, mentor and self-proclaimed data geek. she runs the new georgia project. they registered hundreds of thousands of new voters in georgia using a mix of technology and culture, which

helped get this dude elected and this dude and reverend this dude and of course madam vice president. oakton! >> a lot of people think voter suppression is on the back of a pickup truck with a shotgun. >> we definitely saw instances of that this year, but it is much, much more sophisticated than that. >> georgia's exact match law required voter registration information to exactly match with either a driver's license, state id or social security. sounds good, right? >> even though it appeared to be race new tutral, it's eight tim more likely to pop for an african-american. so like johnsons are much more likely to be black. washington else are much more likely to be black. >> williams. >> so johnson is not eligible to

vote because he's currently incarcerated. with an exact match there is an algorithm and it says, we don't know which one it is. so all of them get kicked out of the voter rolls, right? >> i was like, what? that's what i was talking about. it is racism at scale. because once you have an error right here, then that error gets some pounded over and over and over again. >> although many parts of exact match were struck down, what remains still impacts immigrant communities. and, listen, voter suppression is just one out of countless examples of tech-based racism. you see it in the courts where there are sentencing algorithms that give zip codes for stiffer punishments or social media platforms that alter one's perception of reality. >> if we look at the murder in charleston, south carolina where it was the nine black people that were at stable study.

he was in his basement being fed all of this false information about black people. and he got so mad about it he murdered nine people. the way social media is monetized is it wants your attention. if you watch one people where black people may be violent, the algorithm will keep feeding you that. >> we had this idea, many of us still, that the algorithm is neutral. the idea that math is neutral. >> technologies have the same biases that we do because they're built by humans. you are only going to get the opinion of the coder. that's it. and the coder happens to be white men. >> one way to begin solving the problem in bias in tech is more straightforward. more representation by the folks throughout the tech industry. easy. >> i want to protect our civil rights. and that means that our whole tech infrastructure includes everyone. and this is something that is

said all the time. if you do not have the imaginary of black technological genius, don't you care come and tell me that it doesn't exist. any child that has seen that black panther and saw that doorway to futurism opened, you are in this too. >> exactly. >> how we address these problems now will play a huge role in determining how apocalyptic our future begins to look. we need to inspire these kids to see themselves as a vibrant part of that future. lucky for us, there is an entire art movement whose central message to black folks is when your present is not tolerable -- >> hey, white man, look at me. because black is beautiful, baby. >> create a brand-new one. you can see examples of this afro futuristic vision.

>> it is the music of the sun and the stars, the music of yourself vibrating. >> missy elliot, jenelle monet. fishbone and outkast. in paintings. in films like "the black panther" and "brother from another mother." black folks that refuse to be restricted. get on the mother ship. let's go. >> i'm having some virtual reality low self-esteem. >> i met with this comic book creator and come pick book artist to talk about the power of afro futurism. >> there is a version that a lot of people think about,

envisioning a fantastic sci-fi future that features black people of all shapes and sizes and, you know, well, wauconda. thankfully, the black panther movie. yes. >> a lot of times comic books are in games and toys are those gateway drugs to get kids and young adults into the idea of science and technology. >> characters redefine what being black means. >> they do heal, but not by magic, by technology. >> welcome to your digital world. it looks like if i live here, i'm single. i got some tech money because there is a lot of space. oh, my hand. oh, i got a white hand. >> there you go. we're going to talk about why you have white hands? this is a fault that the company

has. if you don't press anything, give us any information, this is who we presume you to be and we're saying this is okay. we have all lived and understand the premise of jim crow. but the new idea is this thing called jim code. we're creating technology that is going to disenfranchise people, particularly black and brown people who simply aren't in the room when these things are being thought of. we're trying to go for that star trek future. >> look at your cell phone. but it doesn't get nearly enough credit for how it changed black people's future. >> can we talk about the show for a second? seeing her as a black woman on the show, that was -- who was that, right? >> before we get too deep into this, who's that? >> i never saw black people in

fantasy. >> she was about to leave star trek, and then she's at a convention in chicago, and someone tells her, hey, there is a fan who wants to meet you. she's thinking it's going to be this pimply faced kid. it was martin luther king. he said, your show is the only show that i will allow my kids to watch. she eventually told him that she was planning on leaving the show. and he gave a command. he said, nope, you cannot leave this show. it is too important. and when you get that calling from someone of that stature, i guess i'm signing back up. i'm not going to broadway. this is not the way this story is going to end. and then off the camera, she created an initiative which brought in the first nine people of color and women into the nasa

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questions, and then i intend to answer them. where are tomorrow's opportunities? in any one of thousands of test tubes today, there may be a million job opportunities for tomorrow. >> she blinded me with science. >> my time in atlanta has already made one thing clear. if black folks are going to have any say over our future in this country, in this world, we will need legions of young people pursuing careers in fields of science and technology, period. to make it easy, there is a handy acronym for these fields of study. s.t.e.m., science, technology, engineering, math. some people add an a for art. some people add a c for computing. so that's steama or steamc. >> we have to think of citizenship that includes a

certain type of education. >> kamal bob is an engineer whose work focuses on stem equity. i knew i steaded to talk to him because of the whole stem thing. and also, his name is kamal. >> the mere fact that you found me to be able to talk to you, on one hand i was like you were just googling kamals and you found yourself. are there any interesting kamals i can talk to? if you are trying to get more black people in the tech stratosphere, if you don't find schools that prepare you adequately, you won't be able to play. 80% of the black kids in atlanta can't do algebra in the 9th grade. we exemplify what's going on in

the whole country. and it's possible that it's going to create a permanent underclass, period. it will include white people, too. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. but there will be a lot of us in it. but the fact that we have all these white men taking care of us, that's progress. i'm hopeful for sure, but there is going to be a lot of suffering in order to get to this shining city on the hill. >> didn't expect a rain quote. i guess it is a hip-hop city. if you got a good bar, you got a good bar. ♪ living in harmony and peace. >> i see a lot of cranes over here. >> yeah. >> a lot of construction happening. literally as we speak. >> the arrival of the new guilded class. google, microsoft, apple, et cetera. these are trillion-dollar operations. but the power of nation states. but the corporations will come

in and stay stem education is so important because we need a workforce. so that's fine. but it is so workforce driven, especially for black people. we are trained and not educated. we'll shortchange history. we'll shortchange fine language overlooking the need to have fully educated people. losing sight of that, i think, would be to our detriment. >> trained and not educated. that's the whole damn thing. the best way to envision a new tomorrow is to take in as much as you can and then you have to have time to dream up that new tomorrow. where can we find a place to be educated and dream? how about one of america's historically black colleges. i'm returning to moorehouse. >> so my nine-year-old loves school. my six-year-old is like me,

where i'm like, i don't know about this school. i don't know about all this book learning. and i know you have the challenge of people who say things like, i don't do math. >> we historically have been denied access to just fair education. so there is a south carolina negro act of 1740 and we were not allowed to read and write. i don't know if you know the story of the watchers. when africans were trying to learn to read or write, there was somebody watching to see if somebody was coming. i think now my students struggle with math identity. they just feel like they're not a math person, but it's social and culture. >> what led you to pursue this nerd career? >> you know, i was in middle school and i realized that i was actually good at computation. and my teachers egged me up. >> does that mean they turned you into an egg house. >> i kind of hid it a little bit, that i enjoyed it as much

as i did. but when i came to morehouse and was around a bunch of other black men and you could be cool and a nerd at the same time. >> over 700 alumni have gone on to college, 75% of whom graduate with stem degrees. what's different here? i can't seem to put my black finger on it. >> now you get to be around people who look like you heading in the direction where you're headed without having to worry about being judged. you can bring your full self to that space and imagine what you want the future to look like. >> brian and i were hanging out at my house tonight and brian said something about molecules. i said something about variables. the next thing i know we're at the kitchen table doing math together. >> like two brothers do.

just that old stereotypes. >> we ended up developing a course that i think shows students a way to really use math to think about the real world. i had been reading a lot about 1890 to 1901, he was here at atlanta university. he collected data with his students to show the world what black america looked like. he set up visual immanls. >> i have seen some of those. >> yeah. and the students replicate those using census data. using math to think about voting, gerrymandering, looking at their own neighborhoods with numbers. >> i have seen the maps where it's like they have worked to create a district with the most white people in it. >> how do we use this information to design new futures? numbers have always helped us

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♪ welcome back, america. this should go without saying, but then the united states has already done enough not saying. so throughout history, there have been countless uncounted black scientists, inventors, geniuses and thinkers whose

discovers and inventions changed your life. most didn't get credit or even more importantly -- and it's quite a list. odds are in high school you learned the only thing that black people ever invented was pe nut butter. and then you saw this movie. without these three geniuses, we don't get anywhere close to the moon. we also invented math, language and writing. but i digress. ♪ let's start closer to the heart. >> the open surgery was performed by a black doctor. dr. patricia bath invented eye surgery. here at morgan invented the gas mask and the traffic light and the design of our nation's capitol is mostly the work of benjamin bannaker. lonnie johnson has ton a ton of things, but he's most known for

getting people wet real quick. dr. shelly jackson paved the way for touch tone phones and fiberoptic cables. and there are so many that we can't get to. but just understand that black folks aren't new to stem. y'all are just new to giving us credit. in fact, every stem field out there has brilliant black and brown folks thriving and in innovating. we need to inspire more. in the first part of her career was a not so hidden figure at nasa on the team of engineers that designed the mars rover. >> when i was in middle school, one of the shows that i really was drawn to was "the bionic woman." and now i know why. >> hello. researchers use artificial intelligence and machine learning to give me the ability

to understand your world. >> dr. howard and her graduate assistant are working on artificial intelligence in robots. and trust me, we need more dr. howards running things so robots of the future will be more like this, and less like this. >> you must not disobey me. >> i am going to show you a few of my emotions. >> give me one. >> anger. >> she is a good robot. >> fair enough. that's my go to emotion. happiness. ♪ >> pepper is a humanoid robot. she works with individuals with special needs. >> is there a kid that can

pepper be funny? >> our researchers what are working on comedy. >> are those researchers funny? >> they take some of the classics and they compose their own based on it. >> so you can take the richard prior bit about going to see logans run and there is no black people in it and he realizes there is no black people in the future. >> what do you suppose happened to all the people? >> we're getting off the idea, the idea that technology has no bias in it. >> robots can be racist. it is because they perpetuate the decisions of our society. and, so, the developers need to look like the world. so my lab group is very diverse. >> so when you tell your friends and family what you do for a living, what are the reactions you get. >> they're like, oh, my gosh. how do you do that? this is fun. we're asking questions people haven't thought about before. >> it is the exact reason you need people of different races and backgrounds to work on the

future. representation is so damn important. >> if there is robots policing people, it becomes super key who has programmed those robots. >> artificial intelligence is now used for things like predictive policing. it's already out there. >> predictive policing. collected from a long racist history, like the fact that black folks are twice as likely to be arrested as black folks and you get a racist system as the truth. >> cooperate. do not make me destroy you. >> that's crazy. >> don't be racist, pepper. please, pepper. i trust that pepper is being raised right. >> into the galaxy! >> despite how mark zuckerberg

makes it seem, you can create new technology that makes the world a better place all while securing the bag. meet this doctor. she keeps a check on machinemaz. before all that, though, she was the chief technology officer at a startup here in atlanta that was eventually bought by amazon. >> so how did you first get interested in tech? >> i'm from jackson, mississippi. and i lived with my grandmothers. so we would fix everything. i only got electrocuted one time. you learn after that. but nobody in my family was engineer, computer science. i didn't even know that was a thing. >> so little black kids out there, if you are from a place where you have never seen anybody who looks like you do big things in tech and make money, now you have. get to dreaming. >> a lot of people who sell a company are just on instagram posing on their yacht.

>> yes, yes. well, self-ware is very important. >> if you have yacht time, i hope you enjoy it. but not everybody takes that money and thinks reinvest in your community. >> if not you, then who? i need to create a pathway for others like me. i used to think i was in a disadvantage to get into the industry because i was black, female, from the south, not from an ivy league school. that's just simply not true. if we can teach our children that, hey, all these differences, count them up because that's your significance. that's what you bring to the table. people are brilliant out there. give them an opportunity, you will see what they can do with it. we can turn it into what we need to turn it into.

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it's 2021. we got a brand-new old white guy in the white house, the first ever black woman, indian woman and oakland woman as the vice president. it's morning in america. damn it, another reagan quote. he really did have some good lines. one sure way to know we're dealing with 2020 and its aftermath is as i write this one out of every 645 african-americans have died of covid-19 and more are dying every day. yet another reason we need more black folks in stem. people like dr. appellate, georgia tech professor, biomedical engineer and so smart and charming, i'm worried he will take my job. >> what is it like to be a black person who knows the science in the midst of, i don't know, maybe the dumbest period for science in america since --

>> yeah. >> -- i don't know ever. >> america is anti-science. black people as a people need to know we're at increased risk of this. let us all wear masks, period. we together would be like we wear a mask for everyone else. it is not that you are the weirdo that's scared so then we can save the whole population. >> it's clear how in a public health crisis we need folks that look like us we can trust. >> vaccines are coming. and one of the big things is black folks not trusting when the federal government is like, we got your vaccine. here you go. >> the biggest part is me making sure my family will be safe. thankfully they trust me and i can talk to them about. we can't think it is a conspiracy theory. looking at the science behind the vaccine, particularly that mrna vaccine because that's different. there is no live virus. icon vinced my family that we

should sign up for the vaccine. but with a vaccine, we still need to wear masks because in the vaccine might last for this year, maybe a new covid next year. but if you get good therapies also, which they're working on, that even if we get covid we don't die from it, that's where we really want to get to. but even with treatment, wear a mask and wash your hands. >> i'm better at this than i used to be when i was a kid but you see guys go to the bathroom and walk right out. >> let me tell you why washing your hands is so important for covid because it seems so important. so the virus has a mem rain around it. the membrane is made of fat or lipids. you know how the fat spreads apart? so that lipid is keeping that virus together. you put soap and wash it, it

breaks up the whole virus outside and all the insides leak out. can't do anything. it's done for, done. >> today throughout america, our monuments unlike any erected in history. they will symbolize the union between business and science. >> we haven't cured cancer, but we have a viagara pill. we have never on the market. >> new one is coming. >> new one is coming every day. funding for scientific research only happens because someone is interested in the topic. it's usually white male someones interested in white male projects with their white male money. >> black professors, all things being equal, the way you train, 50% is likely to be funded. it's mind numbing sometimes the things that we have to jump through to get the funds that we want to do the work. particularly we study something that's not so popular. i carry about sickle cell

disease. we identified it in the lab in 1910. think about that. there was one drug on the market. 110 years later, one drug. now, it is a challenging problem truly. but the people that it impacts are also a problem with how do you lobby, how do you get federal money. it is like killing people at young ages still. >> yeah. >> so i run a few high school research programs. >> first of all, let's not yada yada that. >> as any black professional will tell you, we need to make sure our path of the second generation is clearer than the ones we traveled. >> they look at me like, oh, he's always been there. it's not at all my truth, right? >> do you have imposter syndrome? >> like crazy. when they are struggling and i see it as imposter syndrome because someone dropped a word that they heard or somebody said something and i have to open up

and say, you know i still deal with that, too. >> talking to dr. appellate reminds me of the most pressing question of our time, the real reason i'm doing this episode. >> could spiderman happen? >> so spiderman i don't have a good answer for you. but jurassic park i think could happen. people are working at it. they have saber tooth tiger dna. >> another thing to be afraid of. >> my fulcrum is terminator 2. is this the technology that will destroy humans. >> are you the joe morgan? >> i don't want to be the joe morgan. >> i thought it was interesting to put it on a black guy. it was bittersweet. i'm like, good, a black guy was smart enough to destroy the future.

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science. it's how we know if the air is safe to breathe, if the water is good to drink. if only there was a charming old science film to help explain. >> ouch! gosh, this watershed isn't made better. we can't slide on it anymore. >> just what i feared. >> hey, damn it, that's a white guy. >> everybody is affected by the way watersheds are managed. and everybody ought to do something about it. >> no more old white guys explaining stuff. let's get some black women in here. here we go. they work with the west atlanta watershed alliance. proving wawa isn't just a place to get a quick hoogie in philly.

>> we're looking for the evidence of bacteria in the city of atlanta as well as across the country. we still have polluting infrastructure called combined sewer systems. >> combined sewer systems. just what i pictured talking about when i grew up and wanted to be a kmaecomedian. all in the same pipe. what could go wrong? slightly too much rain for the pipe, uh-oh. >> we sometimes have raw untreated sewage mixed with water. in atlanta, they are in predominantly black communities. >> growing up from a particular zip code has a 12 to 18 year life difference in expectancy than folks from the northern side of the city. >> it dictates the type of

infrastructure that serves those communities. we decided that we needed an organization that would not only fight against the negative things but that we also needed something that would be a positive for us. being able to envision what can be. >> when i was growing up, cascade springs was always locked. i know i wasn't the only child hopping the fence to play in this park. getting into the water might not have been the best thing then to come back to now do water quality testing in the same stream that i used to play in is amazing. >> how important is it that black folks get more connected to the environmental sciences? >> we are a part of this living world. and i think sometimes we forget our connection to nature. >> wawa is like a experiment. it's for us and it's bias. >> okay. all right. >> we talk about the wawa way. you can't do what you don't know or what you haven't seen.

and if the opportunities haven't been presented to you, do you even though that they exist. >> three out of the four of us sitting here went to hbcus, and we had those opportunities, right, created for us. shout-out spellman college! >> it is a top producer of black women in black phds. >> just like morehouse, there is something about being in a place where you can be you. >> my professors they look like me. my professors they care. it helps to be it when you can see it. so they get a chance to see black people engaged in the work of environmentalism. there had been so many instances where we had been working with young people. and they get outside. they test the water and they learn about the trees and then they start tosay, well, wait a

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>> you have to make a prediction whether you think it's going to sink or it's going to float. who said sink? >> sink. >> here we go. one, two, three. >> wait, what? >> one thing me, whitney houston

and george benson agree on, the children are our future. and most of them are already better at science than me. >> this is why i don't float in swimming pools. me made of me is heavier than me made of water. >> no, actually. it's probably because you don't know how to float. >> of all living creatures, the human infant has the most prodig gous powers of growth. >> and we need to nurture them in every generation. but you may have noticed by who was included in this old timy film or by watching tv today, developing is an aftermath. that's creepy. get out! but the truth is, there are black families all over excelling and supplying us with the stem brilliance we need for our future, but it ain't easy. these parents who are raising three brilliant children,

hannah, aaron and ca pleb. he is 12 but has a full scholarship to georgia tech. so i wanted to hang out with these super parents and get whatever tips i can for the rest of us. >> were you eating a lot of kale? >> a lot of nurturing nature. >> do you want to pick it up? good job! dog for kayla. yeah! >> it didn't passively happen. you know? we did this since they were young. >> what does this say? i may not be a physicist, but i can teach my child to love learning. i can teach them to love science. curiosity, failure. >> were you two interested in this before you had all these children? >> no. >> no. >> i definitely took these ideas

home to my kids and acted like i came up with them myself. but also not every black family can do what this family does. every family can't have parents that dedicate so much time and so many resources to their kids and still keep food on the table and a roof over head. >> i always think about from the auto biography of malcolm x where he talks about this runner. maybe he was supposed to be a brilliant mathematician, but he just didn't have access to that. >> i think there are more kids like caleb. i tell parents, you do know this child is very smart. memorizing this jay-z song is not normal. let's try the periodic table and see how that works, you know? but it does take a lot of work. it does take a lot of sacrifice. maybe traveling here or getting the latest furniture or curtains. >> one day. >> one day we'll get curtains. >> my middle kid just turned six

and my mom got her a book. the fact that she hlikes that i exciting for a parent. the future is that. >> we came into this week thinking about afro futurism, but somehow that led us to thinking about family. families like the andersons who are nurturing the young, gifted and black. but something that came up again and again this week, how we safe guard our feature when we treat everyone like family. >> there was a student. he was always leaving early. and he came one day to show me like here is my daughter. and i said, it's fine, man. she could be part of the community, too. let me take her so you can take some good notes. we take care of our own. no matter what the circumstances are. we do what we need to do for each other. >> that first day was so traumatizing for me. it is really important that i ended up in a class where i had a ta who was a black woman who saw me struggling.

and she invited me to work in her lab. >> i see you trying to leave. i'm not going to let that happen. what i want to do here is just be like, you could be a scientist just as you are. you don't have to change how you look. you don't have to change how you act or what kind of music you listen to. you're a scientist. it is not a weird thing to have a black scientist with my hair or yours walking around. >> so 20, 30, 40 years ago, somebody created something that allowed for me now to be where i am. >> it doesn't have to be logan's run or terminator 2. we can get to that star trek future. we already have the talent, young, black brilliance is everywhere young us. but again, this is a recruitment video. we need you. but we don't just need the black yous. we need this entire country to get behind inviting black folks into the future. how much have we all lost because the united states has let black genius fall through

the cracks? these are selfish questions because we will make sure that future is better, more fun and more fabulous in ways we can't even imagine. yeah. the following is a cnn special. wait a minute, man. let me count it off first. one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ mother, mother ♪ there's too many of you c crying ♪ brother, brother, brother ♪ there's far too m