Without Darden’s first-hand knowledge of the problem, Champine might never have known that action was necessary.

For example, a white, gay, disabled, cisgendered man might reap the benefits of privilege for his race and gender, but experience oppression for his sexual orientation and disability. A straight, college-educated, cisgendered Muslim woman might experience certain privilege on account of her sexual orientation and level of education, but experience oppression on account of her gender and religion. The intersection of categories of social difference, and of the forces of privilege and oppression that are bound up in them, are what Crenshaw’s term names. In the case of Christine Darden and her promotion, Gloria Champine was

These two pieces of evidence provided the rationale for the judge to throw out the case.

Global North and the Global South

It was also, presumably, the work of many unnamed colleagues and friends, who may or may not have considered themselves feminists, who provided Darden with community and support--and likely a significant number of casseroles--as she ascended the ranks of NASA.

Darden would advance to the top rank in the federal civil service, the first Black woman at Langley to do so. By the time that she retired from NASA, in 2007, Darden was the head of a Directorate herself.

all while “juggling the duties of Girl Scout mom, Sunday school teacher, trips to music lessons, and homemaker,” she recalls.

In other words, Friedan had failed to consider how additional factors like race and class, not to mention sexuality, ability, age, religion, and geography, among many others, intersect with each other in order to determine any particular woman’s personal experience in the world.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race,

Most of the male engineers never even bothered to learn the female computers’ names.

These computers were all women, trained in math but treated like secretaries.

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But there is little evidence that such programs are helping students. Take Maine, which guarantees a tablet for every student. According to NPR, “at a cost of about $12 million annually,” the state “has yet to see any measurable increases on statewide standardized test scores.”

Because of standardized tests, which are taken on a computer.

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Kids who watched three hours a day were 30 percent more likely to have attention trouble than those who watched none.

As for a racial divide, Pew finds that African-American teenagers are more likely to own a smartphone than any other group of teenagers in America.

But no one is telling poorer parents about the dangers of screen time.

such lending programs are “the latest buzz.”

Today, thanks to lucrative contracts with school districts, tech companies are happy to bring screens into the classroom and send them home.

an increase of one standard deviation in the number of hours of television watched at age 1 “is associated with a 28 percent increase in the probability of having attentional problems at age 7.”

Screen time has a negative effect on children’s ability to understand nonverbal emotional cues; it is linked to higher rates of mental illness, including depression; and it heightens the risk for obesity.

according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, while black and Hispanic children spend 13 hours.

A group of former Facebook and Google employees last week began a campaign to change the tech companies they had a hand in creating.

the unconscionable practice of cash bail is finally coming to an end.

which argued that a system of legal discrimination and segregation had been born again in this country because of the war on drugs and mass incarceration

Fortunately, a growing number of advocates are organizing to ensure that important reforms, such as ending cash bail, are not replaced with systems that view poor people and people of color as little more than commodities to be bought, sold, evaluated and managed for profit.

quintupling of the incarcerated population.

As I see it, digital prisons are to mass incarceration what Jim Crow was to slavery.

One false step (or one malfunction of the GPS tracking device)

a GPS tracking device provided by a private company that may charge you around $300 per month

Many algorithms are fiercely guarded corporate secrets.

a system of “e-carceration”

Florida restored the vote to over 1.4 million people with felony convictions

born partly out of well-intentioned reforms

Challenging these biased algorithms may be more difficult than challenging discrimination by the police, prosecutors and judges.