Darold Cuba

Columbia University Oral History Masters of Arts — In this reflection on Dr. Lorina Barker's recent lecture at OHMA, Wikipedia Fellow and Wikimedian-In-Residence Darold Cuba explores how scholars and academics can decolonize and indigenize public spaces through public scholarship, exemplified by new wiki initiatives incubated at the Columbia University Libraries, WikiHMCi and WikiHBCU/DIO.

SPOT Magazine (Houston Center for Photography) — Long before American primetime audiences were introduced to freedom colonies through the ancestral histories of celebrities like Michael Strahan in Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ series, Finding Your Roots, freedom colonies around the world have been documenting, preserving, and sharing their histories—including Houston’s own Freedmen’s Town, also known as The Fourth Ward. Centuries of systemic, institutional, and structural racism have re-envisioned and in many cases erased these places and their important histories.

Columbia University Oral History Masters of Arts — Can the Wikimedia platform, tools and model help solve Oral History's biggest problem - transcribing and digitizing the overwhelming number of unprocessed oral histories sitting in vaults around the world? Current Oral History MA candidate & Wikipedia Fellow Darold Cuba explores this possibility in a reflection of a Nov. 1, 2018 talk presented by Doug Boyd in the 2018 - 2019 OHMA workshop series, Oral History and the Future: Archives and Embodied Memory.

The New York Times — CREDITS: A @GEEKOmni Production •Co-Producers: @DaroldCuba & @DougieDistefano •Co-Directors: @DaroldCuba & @DougieDistefano •Executive Producer: Theresa Gonzalez, @NYTimes; Program Manager •Director of Photography: Tinx Chan •Editor: Joseph Paul Alvarado •Production: Ricardo Lopez

The New York Times — RZA watched the Shaw Brothers' martial arts classic "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin" for the first time on television when he was 12 years old. Two years later, he saw the 1978 movie on the big screen "in a seedy Times Square theater on 42nd Street," he recalled.

The New York Times — An earlier version of this article, using a transcript provided by the Federal News Service that was missing some sections, misstated several data points from Monday's presidential debate. Hillary Clinton spoke 6,267 words, not 6,181, and Donald J. Trump spoke 8,401 words, not 7,870; Mrs.

The New York Times — Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, on Chicago's South Side and was nicknamed Bobo because of his fun-loving, cheerful disposition while growing up in the segregated middle-class neighborhood. When he was 14 he went to Mississippi to spend the summer with his cousins, and his mother gave him his father's signet ring as a gift. He would be murdered by poor white men incensed at the fact that he had the nerve to feel equal to them. After the swift acquittal, and now protected from double jeopardy, the men sold their story to LOOK Magazine, where they explained their reasoning for killing the 14 year old boy: “Early in the morning of August 28, 1955, Milam and Bryant abducted Bobo from his uncle’s farmhouse, intending to beat him and “chase him back to Chicago.” But instead of cowering, Bobo taunted them about his relations with a white girl, whereupon they took him to the Tallahatchie River, where Milam killed him with one bullet from an Army .45. They fastened a gin fan to his neck and threw him in. 'I didn’t intend to kill the nigger when we went and got him–just whip him and chase him back up yonder. But what the hell! He showed me the white gal’s picture! Bragged o' what he’d done to her! I counted pictures o’ three white gals in his pocketbook before I burned it. What else could I do? No use lettin’ him get no bigger!'”

The New York Times — At 17, like many other Americans, Medgar Evers enlisted in the Army during World War II. A star athlete in high school, he participated in the Allied invasion of Europe, rising to the rank of sergeant before his honorable discharge in 1946. But for Evers, who was born on this day in 1925 to an African-American farming family in Decatur, Miss., even the segregated Army was more welcoming than the Jim Crow South to which he returned after the war. The racial injustice there rankled so much that he resolved to fight it, becoming the first field officer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi.

Vice — Darold Cuba's 2015 feature, "The Loud Fight Against Silicon Valley's Quiet Racism: How Tech Became A Civil Rights Battleground," is selected as one of the 15 features of the year. FROM THE EDITOR: We published a lot of stories this year. No small share of them were reported, longform features whose characters and forces-at-play have not settled since. They've gone on, each in their own way, and are worth revisiting. I've compiled some of these features, with updates and in no particular order, below. It's an incomplete list. We covered a lot of ground this year, feature-wise. We dropped a three-part series on sex and gender issues in space.

VICE — Image: G.K. Butterfield/Facebook The Congressional Black Caucus is in Silicon Valley this week to meet with companies that are at the forefront of innovation but lacking a diverse workforce. CBC members will visit many of the tech giants, including Apple, Bloomberg, Google, Intel, and Pandora. It's part of the CBC's TECH 2020 plan, which outlines diversity principles, best practices, and resources for African American students and entrepreneurs, and introduces legislation focused on increasing STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts, math) education. Part of the CBC's plan aims to get stakeholders, nonprofits, and tech companies to publish a diversity and inclusion plan that would consist of short- and long-term solutions to ensure African American representation in tech and non-tech jobs by 2020.

VICE Media — Written by Darold Cuba For Hank Williams, an entrepreneur based in New York, building a more diverse Silicon Valley isn't just an economic or moral issue. There are more pressing reasons, ones that no one in the industry or anywhere else likes to talk about. "The problem is, the innovation economy is the economy," he told me recently. "If all the significant growth that we expect going forward is coming from fields in which vast blocks of people have no participation or engagement, then we are heading for trouble." "If you think Occupy Wall Street is a troubling sign of dissatisfaction around wealth distribution," he added, "you ain't seen nothing yet."

VICE Media — In the face of corporate control of the Internet, Tim Wu’s concept of network neutrality has sparked a brewing war over the future of communication.

VICE — As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, who's the star of this TED talk, has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, alien sightings and other hilarious and really very sad beliefs, paranoias and theories. But he's not about debunking for debunking's sake. Shermer is a staunch defender of the idea that we can understand our world better only by matching good theory with good science. In order to pulverize the notion that explosives caused the World Trade Center towers to fall on 9/11, for instance, one should call upon demolition experts.