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XXVIII.5 September - October 2021
Page: 34
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Reflecting on being Black in computing


Authors:
Quincy Brown, Tyrone Grandison, Odest Jenkins, Jamika Burge, Tawanna Dillahunt, Jakita Thomas, Sheena Erete, Yolanda Rankin

In June 2020, a community of Black computing professionals from around the world published an open letter (https://blackincomputing.org/), initiated by some of the authors, and two calls for action to the global computing community, one from Black in Computing (https://blackincomputing.org/action-item-list/) and the other an ACM Interactions blog [1]). The open letter began with our reflections of the moment: The recent killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police has sparked a movement that began at the birth of our nation. Though George Floyd may have been the most recent instance, we should not forget the lives of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud…




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