october 24th. that's it. [ audience booing ] >> and i think that cancellation probably changed him. >> it was a great period of anxiety for me. i was worried that i'd never get another shot. >> he was not at all happy. he thought his career was over. 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 somewhere between cross burnings and qanon, racists took an off-ramp onto 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 imaginators.

we have these already, but we need a lot more. it's like john lewis said. get into this great revolution that is sweeping the nation. get in and stay in the streets. it's not just the physical streets. black folks now have to fight the civil rights fight in the virtual streets, in those algorithmic streets, in those internet streets. >> let's hit the streets. ♪ ♪ if we're looking to find black folk who's are ready to take on the challenge of changing the world, we might as well head to atlanta. from king to abrams, this place just sweats black excellence. civil rights to voters rights. but it also has a rapidly

growing tech sector. there's no better place to ask, how can those black folks play a big role in creating the most futuristic future when technology is working overtime to hold us back? how can we write the codes and the algorithms? who owns these companies? white do they -- i mean what do they look like? what's at stake if we don't take action? everything. we are literally in mlk's stomping grounds. his church he pastored at over there, ebenezer. new church where raphael warnock pastors at right there. senator warnock. what did 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 logics that drive the algorithm are the ideology of white supremacy.

>> ma tal la inconday is the ceo of a.i. for the people. her mission, eliminate the underrepation of black professionals in the technology sector by 2030. no biggie. >> 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's not alone in recognizing the need to address the problem of this newer, stronger, digitized form of racism and discrimination. first of all, let me be a proper southern gentleman. >> spot on. >> thank you. this tea is not sweet tea. >> it's not. that's why i put it on the floor. >> dr. brandeis marshall is a computer scientist, educator, mentor, and self-proclaimed data geek. nse 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 duty, and reverend this duty, and of course madam vice president. >> i'm saving democracy. >> a lot of times when people hear voter suppression, they think it's bubba on the back of a pickup truck with a shotgun. >> we definitely saw instances of that this year, but it's much, much more sophisticated than that. in georgia they had a system called exact match. >> georgia's exact match law required voter registration information to exactly match with either a driver's license, state i.d., or social security. sounds good, right? >> even though it appeared to be race-neutral, it's like eight times more likely to pop for an african-american because of the history of chattel slavery in this country. so, like, johnsons are more likely to be black. washingtons are much more likely

to be black. >> williams. >> derek johnson is not eligible to vote because he's currently inc incar incarcerated. with exact match, there's an algorithm and it pulls all the derek johnsons. it says we don't know which one it is, so all of them get kicked out of the voter rolls. >> kamau is like what? that's what i was talking about. it is racism at scale because once you have an era rigror rig here, that error gets compounded over and over and over again. >> although many parts of exact match were struck down, what remains still impacts immigrant comm communities. and, listen, voter suppression is just one out of countless examples of tech-based racism. social media algorithms that literally 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 bible study, he was sitting 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 that it wants your attention. so if you watch one video where black people may be violent, the algorithm will keep feeding you that. automated anti-blackness. >> we had this idea, many of us -- some of 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 of bias in tech is pretty straightforward. more representation from the folks throughout the text industry. easy. >> i want to protect our civil rights. that means that our whole tech

infrastructure includes everyone. this is something that ense says all the time. if you do not have the imagine ari of black technological genius, don't you dare come and tell me that it doesn't exist. any child that has seen black panther and has had like that doorway to afro futurism opened, you are in this too. >> exactly. >> how we address that's problems now will play a huge role in determining how apocalyptic our future continues to look. we need to inspire this generation of tech savvy kids to see themselves as a vibrant part of that future. lucky for us there's 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 in the music of sun ra. >> it's the music of the sun and the stars, the music of yourselves vibrating. >> missy elliott, janelle monae, fishbone, and outcast. in the books of octavia butler and tanna na reeb due, films like the black panther and brother from another planet. black folks who refuse to be confined by the strictures of this racist system or restrictions of gravity, or even common sense. >> it's education. you understand? >> get on the mother ship. let's go. >> i'm out of here. >> i'm having some virtual reality low self-esteem. >> i met with comic book creator and game designer ded ron snead

to talk about the power of afro futurism. there's the version i think a lot of people think about, envisioning a fantastic sci-fi future that features black people of all shapes and sizes and, you know, wakanda. thankfully the black panther -- >> that thing. >> 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 like shuri redefine about what being black means. >> those wounds don't imaginely heal overnight. >> they do heal but not by magic. by technology. >> welcome to your digital world. looks like if i live here, i'm single. i got some tech money because there's a lot of space. oh, my hand. oh, i got a white hand. >> there you go. we want to talk about why do you have white hands as a black man?

v.r.? >> this is the 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've all lived and understand the premise of jim crow. but i think the new idea is this thing called jim code. with implicit bias, 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. you know, we're trying to go for that star trek future. >> star trek gets a lot of credit for how it shaped the tech 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 michelle nichols for a second? >> seeing her as a black woman on the show, that was, who was that, right?

>> it's just i never saw black people in fantasy in that sense. >> she was about to leave star trek, and then she's at a convention in chicago, and someone tells her, hey, there's a fan who wants to meet you. she's thinking it's going to be this pimply faced kid. it was martin luther king. and she was just like -- he said, your show is the only show i will allow my kids to watch. >> wow. >> she eventually told him that she was planning on leaving the show, and he gave a command. and he said, no. you cannot leave the 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 thistor sto is going to end. and then off the camera, she created an initiative which brought in the first nine people

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i intend to ask one or two questions, and then i intend to answer them. where are tomorrow's opportunities? in any one of thousands of test tubes of 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 are going to need legions of young people pursuing careers in fields of science and technology, period. to make it easy, there's a handy acronym for these fields of study. got to have an acronym, 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 stemca or castem. let's just go with stem.

>> we have to conceive of a way of citizenship that includes a type of education. >> his work focuses on stem equity. i knew i needed to talk to him because of the whole stem thing and also his name is kamau. what, am i not going to put a kamau on the show? >> the mere fact that you found me to be able to talk to you, on one hand i'm thinking you're just googling for kamaus. any interesting kamaus that i can talk to? so the thing about it is if you're thinking about trying to get more black people into the tech stratosphere, if you're going to schools don't prepare you adequately, in stem, ultimately you're not going to be able to play. stem education is access to power, but the reality is that 80% of the black kids in atlanta can't do algebra in the ninth grade, which precludes them from any kind of stem future

post-second ari. 80%. let me just say it. we kind of exemplify what's going on in the whole country. and it's possible that is going to create a permanent underclass, period. it's going to include white people, too. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> but there's just going to be a lot of us in it. the mere fact that you and i are both named kamau having this conversation and all these white men taking care of us, that's progress. so i'm hopeful for sure, but there's going to be a lot of suffering in order to get to this shining city on the hill as reagan would say. >> didn't expect a reagan quote this week in atlanta. i guess it's a hip-hop city. if you've got a good bar, you've got a good bar. >> shining city upon a hill. >> i see a lot of cranes over here, a lot of construction happening literally as we speak. >> the arrival of the new gilded class. google, microsoft, apple, et cetera. these are trillion dollar

operations, with the power of nation states. but the corporations will come in and say, oh, stem education is so important because we need a workforce. so that's fine, but it's so workforce-driven, especially for black people. we're trained and not educated. we'll shortchange history. we'll shortchange art. wheel shortchange foreign 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 of today 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 and universities? i'm returning to morehouse to talk to professors nathan alexander and brian garrett who are working on the "m" in stem. so my 9-year-old is one of those

kids who loves school. it's like my wife would go to school for the rest of her life, a big fan. my 6-year-old is like me, like, i don't know about this school. i don't know about all this book learning. i know you have the challenge of people who say things like, i don't do math. >> we've historically been denied access to just fair education. so there's the 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 enslaved africans were trying to learn to read and write, you know, there was somebody watching to see if somebody was coming. that shows that we did whatever was necessary to learn. >> mm-hmm. >> and i think now my students struggle with math identity. >> yeah. >> they feel like they're not a math person, but it's social and cultural. >> what led you to pursue this nerd career. >> i was in middle school, and i realized i was actually good at computation. then my teachers, they egged me up. >> they egged you up? does that mean they turned you into an egghead?

>> they're like, you're good at this. i kind of hid it a little bit that i enjoyed it as much as i did. but when i came to morehouse, i was around a bunch of other black men, and you could be cool and a nerd at the same time. >> the smash program that brian leads as over 700 alumni who have gone on to college. 75% of whom graduate with stem degrees. so about double the national average. what's different here? hmm. can't seem to put my black finger on it. >> smash morehouse is a space for afro futurism to live because now you get to be around people who look like you, heading in the direction you're headed without having to worry about being judged. and you can bring your full self to that space and imagine what you want the future to look like. >> brian said something about molecules. i said something about variables. the next thing i know we're at the kitchen table doing some math together. >> like two brothers do.

>> that's what we do. >> that old stereotype about black dudes. >> we're in the kitchen just nerding out, and we ended up developing a course that i think showed students a way to really use math to think about the real world. i had been reading a lot about w.b. due boyce. he was here at atlanta university. he collected data with his students to show the world what black america looked like in these set of visual images, info graphics. and the students replicate those using census data, using math to think about voting, gerrymandering, gentrification, looking at those own neighborhoods. >> they've worked to create a district that has the most white people in it. >> you talk to most mathematicians, they say, math is not political, but it very much is. how do we use this information to design new futures? we've made it through struggle

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black scientists, inventors, geniuses and tinkerers whose discoveries and inventions changed your life. most didn't get credit or even more importantly -- and it's quite a list. look, odds are in high school, you learned the only thing that black people ever invented was peanut butter. then you saw this movie. without these three geniuses, we don't get anywhere close to the moon. not surprising because we also invented math, language, and writing. but i digress. let's start closer to the heart. the very first open heart surgery was performed by a black doctor named daniel hale williams. dr. patricia bath invented laser eye surgery. dr. charles drew developed large-scale blood banks. garrett morgan invented the gas mask and the traffic light and the design of our nation's capitol is mostly the work of astronomer and mathematician benjamin banneker. are you getting the point?

but wait, there's more. lonnie johnson has done a ton of things but he's most known for getting people wet real quick. mm-hmm. dr. shirley jackson's experiments paved the way for touch-tone phones, caller i.d., and fiber optic cables. and there are so many more that we can't get to, but just understand that black folks ain't new to stem. y'all have just new to giving us credit. in fact, every stem field out there has brilliant black and brown folks thriving and innovating. we need to recognize and celebrate their achievements to inspire more. more, i tell you. more like world renowned robot sift dr. ayanna howard, who 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.

my name is pepper. >> i like the movements. can we make it a little slower? >> 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'm going to show you a few of my emotions. >> give me one. >> anger. >> pepper is a good robot. >> fair enough. that's my go-to emotion. happiness. ♪ >> pepper is a humanoid robot and we use artificial intelligence so that she works with individuals with special needs, primarily motor

disabilities. >> is there like -- can pepper be funny? can pepper, you know, be humorous? >> there are researchers that are working on comedy. >> are those researchers funny? >> so, no, what they do is take some of the classics and compose their own based on that. >> so you can take that richard pryor bit about going to see logan's run and there's no black people in it, and he realizes there's no black people in the future. >> what do you suppose happened to all the people? >> we're getting to the idea that technology has no bias in it, that it's just a robot. >> robots can be racist. it's because they will perpetuate the decisions of our society. 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? i'm like, you should go major in computer science. we're asking questions people haven't thought about before. >> asking questions that haven't

been thought of before is the exact reason you need people of different races and backgrounds to work on the future. representation is so damn important. suddenly if there's 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. feed a bunch of racist data collected from a long racist history, and what you get is a racist system that treats the racism that was put into it as the truth. >> cooperate. do not make me destroy you. >> that's crazy. >> pepper is looking at me with some side eye. don't be racist, pepper. please, pepper. i trust that pepper is being raised right.

>> 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 dr. nashly sethis. she keeps a check on machine learning technologies at amazon as well as being the founder of the maker space kit labs. 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 grew up -- 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're from a place where you've never seen anybody who looks like you do big things in tech and make money, now you

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every day. yet another reason we need more black folks in stem. people like dr. manu ply, georgia tech professor, and so smart and charming i'm worried he'll 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, i don't know, ever? >> america is anti-scientist. >> that's for sure. >> just as a people, we need to know we are at increased risk of this. let us just wear masks, period. then we as a community, as a people together, could be like, we wear masks for everyone else. it's not like you are the weirdo who's scared, so then we can save the whole population. >> as quick as you can say cuss tee guy, it's clear how in a public health crisis, we need folks who look like us who we can trust. vaccines are coming and one of the big things is black folks not trusting. >> the biggest part is me trying

to make sure my family will be safe. thankfully i've been a scientist for a long time so they trust me and i can talk about it. we can't think it's a conspiracy theory for a number of reasons. looking at the science behind the vaccine, particularly that mrna vaccine because that's different than other vaccines. there's no live virus or anything. so i made the talk, convinced my family that we should sign up for the vaccine. but with the vaccine, we still need to wear masks because the vaccine, as we talk about it, might last for this year. maybe a new covid next year. but if you get good therapies also, which they're working on it, even if we get covid, we won'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 when i used to be a kid. but you see guys go to the bathroom and just walk right out. i've seen in restaurants and i want to go back to the table, he didn't wash his hands. >> it seems so stupid.

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being equal, where you train, how much publications, everything else, 50% as likely to be funded. it's mind-numbing sometimes the things we have to jump through to get the funds we want to do the work. particularly when we study something that's not so popular. one of the things i care about is sickle cell disease. we actually identified it in a lab in 1910. think about that. back then, there was one drug on the market for sickle cell. 110 years later, one drug. now, it's a challenging problem, truly. but the people that it impacts are also a problem with how do you get federal money, how do you get all this set? it's kiling people at young ages still. so i care about bringing other black people into the field. >> let's not yadda yadda that. >> our second job is making sure the path of the next generation is clearer than the one we traveled. >> these high school students

look at me and they're like, oh, he's always been there. he must come from this family of scientists and money and this and that. and that'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, i have to open up and be like, you know i still deal with that too. >> talking to dr. platt reminds me of the most pressing question of our time, the real reason i'm doing this episode. could spider-man happen? could we ever -- could that -- >> so spider-man i don't have a good answer for you. >> okay. >> but jurassic park, i think, could happen. people are working on it. even up the road at the university of georgia, they have got saber-tooth tiger dna. my fulcrum is terminator 2. is this going to be the technology that will destroy humans? >> are you the joe morton, in other words? >> i don't want to be the joe morton.

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safe to breathe, if the water is good to drink. if only there was a charming old science film to help explain. ♪ >> ouch. gosh, i hope this watershed made better because if it is, we can't slide on it anymore. >> just what i feared. 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. meet dr. nataki osborn jelks, dare erica holeman hill and their associates. they work with the west atlanta watershed alliance, proving wawa isn't just a place to get a quick hoagie in philly. >> we're actually monitoring

water here in atlanta. we're looking for the evidence of bacteria, in particular e. coli 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 comedian. she's sewers are designed to collect -- slightly too much rain for the pipe? uh-oh. >> when there are heavy rain events, we sometimes have raw untreated sewage mixed with stormwater. it has with it disease carrying pathogens. combined sewers in atlanta, they're in predominantly black communities. >> here in atlanta, youth growing up from a particular zip code has a 12 to potential 18-year life difference in expectancy than folks from the northern side of the city.

>> a type of infrastructure that serves those communities. we decided we needed an organization that would not only fight against the negative things but we also needed something that would be a positive force. >> being able to envision what can be. >> when i was growing up, cascade springs was always locked. i know that i wasn't the only child hopping the fence to play in this locked 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 kind of a fool's experience. it's for us and it's biased. >> we talk about the wawa way. you can't do what you don't know or what you haven't seen.

if the opportunities haven't been presented to you, do you even know that they exist? >> three out of the four of us sitting here went to hbcus, and we had those opportunities created for us. shout-out spellman college. >> 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 to say, well, wait a minute. science is fun.

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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 prodigous powers of growth. >> and we need to nurture them in every generation. but you may have noticed by who was included in the old-timey 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 caleb. while all the kids are smart, caleb 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. sometimes i have to tell parents, you do know this child is very smart, right? 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 likes dr. j. middleton is 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. >> we're talking afro features, right? so 20, 30, 40 years ago somebody created something that allows 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 . hi, welcome to all of our viewers here in the united states and around the world. thank you for joining me this hour. i am robyn curnow. just ahead on cnn. more violent clashes as palestinians face-off on the streets and we'll have a live report from jerusalem with the latest. vaccination rates have been dropping despite the push to