As more institutions adopt the use of facial recognition, many criticize this technology as being highly unreliable- especially in its inability to properly identify people of color. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses some of the issues that prevent most software programs and photographic equipment from accurately recognizing or reproducing images of people of color.

May 1, International Labor Day or May Day is celebrated around the world, but it is largely unknown in the United States even though it was started here. Conversely, May 5 or Cinco de Mayo is a very popular drinking holiday in the United States while it is a regional and much more somber holiday in Mexico.  This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how and why these two celebrations have evolved here in the U.S.

May 1, International Labor Day or May Day is celebrated around the world, but it is largely unknown in the United States even though it was started here. Conversely, May 5 or Cinco de Mayo is a very popular drinking holiday in the United States while it is a regional and much more somber holiday in Mexico.  This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how and why these two celebrations have evolved here in the U.S.

The Florida Department of Education recently announced that it rejected 42 math textbooks from its adoption list for incorporating “prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT” (critical race theory). But a further examination indicates that it in most cases, it was references to social emotional learning, not race, that led to the rejections. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses social emotional learning and asset-based pedagogies, such as culturally responsive teaching, and explains why how we learn is as important as what we learn.

The Florida Department of Education recently announced that it rejected 42 math textbooks from its adoption list for incorporating “prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT” (critical race theory). But a further examination indicates that it in most cases, it was references to social emotional learning, not race, that led to the rejections. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses social emotional learning and asset-based pedagogies such as culturally responsive teaching and explains why how we learn is as important as what we learn.

From Brian Flores’s racial discrimination lawsuit, Ohio’s HB 616, political ads using Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement to attack “critical race theory,” to the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the topic of race seemed to be everywhere the first week of April. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses why The 1619 Project and intersectionality are not “divisive and inherently racist concepts” and why not dealing with race is not only bad policy, it’s bad pedagogy.

From Brian Flores’s racial discrimination lawsuit, Ohio’s HB 616, political ads using Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement to attack “critical race theory,” to the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the topic of race seemed to be everywhere the first week of April. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses why The 1619 Project and intersectionality are not “divisive and inherently racist concepts” and why not dealing with race is not only bad policy, it’s bad pedagogy.

This week, Milton Alan Turner and Sandra D. Bishop, host of the Making the Connection Between Race & Health podcast, discuss the 2022 Oscars broadcast and especially Will Smith’s violent reaction to Chris Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith.

Kyiv or Kiev? Beijing or Peking? Mumbai or Bombay? Iraq or Eye-rack? Or the proper pronunciation of Tchoupitoulas or Cuyahoga?  How we pronounce a name can say a lot about us and what we think about others. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses the importance of names how their mispronunciation can be viewed as political as well as acts of aggression.