Keith Institute

This is James Keith, our grandfather's grandfather. It's his birthday. In the essay in Real-Time, JFK connect how our lives became data, our data became AI, and the value became someone else’s property, like James Keith's father.
https://blog.jamesfeltonkeith.com/p/reparations-in-real-time

Ben Shelton vs. Frances Tiafoe in the 2026 US Open men’s singles semifinals is the first time two Black American men have met in a Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open or any other major.

Remember, Shelton beat Tiafoe in the 2023 US Open quarterfinals and it was also a first!!! Expect fireworks!!! 🇺🇸 🎆 🎇

Watching and LOVE that Taylor Townsend has a Ben Crump Law sponsorship on her clothing. It's also a great time to remember that we have not forgotten about Nolan Wells.

👌🏼 NBA player Harrison Barnes ( Harrison Barnes ) invests $25 million to become owner of Iowa community bank - this is how we need to be thinking this Labor Day.

A new report shows that Harvard University's ties to Slavery were transformative in the University’s rise to global prominence, and included enslaved individuals on campus, funding from donors engaged in the slave trade, and intellectual leadership that obstructed efforts to achieve racial equality.

The report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, released Tuesday, describes a history that began with a Colonial-era embrace of slavery that saw more than 70 people enslaved by Harvard presidents and other leaders, faculty, and staff. The report offers a series of recommendations — already accepted by Harvard President Larry Bacow — that amount to a reckoning with the University’s history. A $100 million fund established by the Harvard Corporation to implement the recommendations includes resources both for current use and to establish an endowment to sustain the work in perpetuity.

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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/04/slavery-probe-harvards-ties-inseparable-from-rise/ #:~:text=Harvard%27s%20slavery%20ties%20extended%20beyond,legacies%20of%20slavery%20persist%20today.

In 2026, a Black Man Was Lynched & Burned in 🇺🇸. Say His Name: Robert Elliot

Discrimination & Retaliation is illegal! An independent arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate columnist Karen Attiah, ruling the paper lacked cause to fire her over social media posts following the death of Charlie Kirk. Attiah will receive full back pay and benefits.

inclusionscore.org/news

Stanford research confirms that every major AI company is using your private conversations to train our models. Not theirs, ours. It's time to get our money back for the value they're extracting. Start a at dataunion.keithinstitute.org

On this day, 21 August 1970, the Black Panther newspaper published a letter from co-founder Huey P Newton in which he criticised attitudes in the left groups towards women and LGBT+ people, and called for solidarity with the women's and gay liberation movements.
Newton criticised homophobia and sexism in revolutionary movements, commenting that "homosexuals… might be the most oppressed people in… society", and called on the left to desist using homophobic language:
"We should be careful about using those terms that might turn our friends off. The terms 'f****t' and 'punk' should be deleted from our vocabulary, and especially we should not attach names normally designed for homosexuals to men who are enemies of the people, such as [president Richard] Nixon or [attorney general John] Mitchell. Homosexuals are not enemies of the people."
The letter stated that as a basic principle, "a person should have the freedom to use his body in whatever way he wants", and went on to say that: "there is nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary... Quite the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary."
Newton argued that all radical events should include "full participation of the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement".
The move came a year after the Stonewall rebellion, and the subsequent foundation of the Gay Liberation Front, which supported the Black liberation movement, and militantly raised issues such as homophobia within radical organisations.

Harry Haskell "Bucky" Lew was a true basketball pioneer who broke the sport's color barrier in 1902. Playing a paid professional 24-year career, 50 years before the was established and popularizing the game with longevity like the modern LeBron James. Lew played professionally from 1902 until 1926, before moving coach, manager, referee, and team owner. We're looking forward to 👑 James year 24.