On the afternoon of Monday, April 8th, a large swath of the United States will experience a solar eclipse, from partial form to 100% totality. Needless to say, this will be an extraordinary day. Three-Fifths will contrast the special darkness … Continue reading The April Anniversary Edition: In Clear Voice
With respect to incarceration ‘risk assessment’—along with matters like quality of health care provided African–Americans [17], suitability for mortgage lending, and so on given the dominating context provided by the evolutionary descendant of slavery and Jim Crow, any reasonably sophisticated … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Meets Three-Fifths
“From early soap dispensers neglecting to identify darker complected hands at the public bathroom sink, to discriminatory facial recognition technology, to the segregated communities of haves and have-nots of internet access, a technological Jim Crow is well on its way. Algorithms … Continue reading The March Theme: Crossing The Digital And AI Edmund Pettus Bridge
Common sense is anything and everything except common. Freedom ain’t free.Favor isn’t fair. Aside from death and taxes, there are very few things in this lifethat can be accepted as undeniable, undebatable, and irrefutable facts. Insofar as I’mconcerned, two such … Continue reading “A (Brotha) Man Far Ahead Of His Time-An Appreciation of The Incomparable Nat King Cole”
It was late 1979, and the snow was blowing under the breath and blusters of billowing wintry weather. I was a young driver. You know, one of those high school seniors who would not turn 18 until a year after … Continue reading Nile Rogers, Good Times, and The Walking Bass
February is Black History Month. The national theme is “African Americans and the Arts,” i.e., visual art, music, literature, film, and more. You might call it an Anthology In Black. This culture brought to America by the force of chains … Continue reading The February Special Black History Month Edition: Anthology In Black
In a time of rapid change, you must admit that your present good standing is not permanent. Things are shifting, changing, morphing, and revising. What your status is today is almost guaranteed to have moderated by tomorrow. In the movie … Continue reading The Minority the Myth & the Manipulation
Three-Fifths Magazine takes a clear-eyed look at the “Model Minority Myth” among other various racial myths that codify the system of white supremacy in America. Start the year right; let’s set the record straight and silence this divisive rhetoric. “Ultimately, … Continue reading The January Theme: Deconstructing the Myth
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