By Helen Chickering, BPR — The newly formed Asheville-Buncombe Community Reparations Commission passed its first recommendation Tuesday night. The proposal by former city council member Keith Young, who has played a major role in the reparations effort, asks that both the City and County place money in their annual budget in perpetuity for reparations. “I’m just going […]
Can computers figure out your race by looking at your wrist bones or lungs? Yes, according to a study published this month by the prestigious scientific journal, The Lancet Digital Health. That’s not the whole story, though: the bigger issue is researchers don’t know how the machines do it. The findings come after months of […]