Inclusionism

This book makes a plain argument: your data is not incidental to the AI economy. It is an input. It helps train systems, shape products, reduce risk, increase efficiency, and create enormous enterprise value. Yet the people whose lives, behaviors, language, preferences, and patterns make that value possible are rarely recognized, credited, or paid. I wrote this book to name that imbalance clearly...

The White House has now made its position on artificial intelligence much clearer. It sees the harms. It sees the scams, the deepfakes, the threats to children, the pressure on the electric grid, the fights over copyright, and the disruption coming for workers. It is not blind to the damage. But it is still committed to the same old framework of power: sacrifice the public, protect the market, and...

Everybody is talking about whether AI will be fair, safe, or inclusive, but most of that conversation misses the real issue: ownership. AI will not become equitable just because companies promise better ethics. It becomes equitable when the people whose lives, behavior, culture, and data make these systems valuable actually have property rights in what they are producing. That is the missing piece...

For International Women's Day I sat down with Kit Chaskin and Lauren Golanty from Third to First for a conversation on the Inclusionism podcast about a novel insurance solution to an work place conflict problem that we have quietly lived with for decades: learn how we disincentivize workplace conflict. At first the discussion sounded like a conversation about HR systems. But the more we talked, th...

Own Your Data: From Scandal to Structure A fireside conversation between James Felton Keith and Brittany Kaiser When Joel Telpner opened the evening by jokingly asking the audience to hand over their driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers, the room laughed. It was a sharp reminder of how casually we’ve surrendered personal information for years. But beneath the humor was a serious premise:...

Gerald Carter states on the podcast that his company, Diversity Photos , filed claims against Adobe Inc. after alleging that Adobe used their licensed images to train its generative AI model, Firefly, beyond the scope of their agreement. The dispute centers on three core allegations described in the episode: * Breach of contract Carter argues the license granted to Adobe was for promoting and dist...

We are proud to announce IncluionScore. AI which is the result of about 40,000 and 45 years of DEI&B know-how. Inclusion Score is the tech arm of the ISO-30415 Certifying Body and our Chair, James Felton Keith is expanding on the original certification course from University of Georgia to train everyone on how to implement DEI with rigor while filling in all of their knowledge gaps. --- The IS...

Missouri Attorney General versus Starbucks’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jamesfeltonkeith.substack.com

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Black History Isn’t a Month. It’s a Practice. This year marks 100 years of Black History Month . A century since Carter G. Woodson pushed America to confront what it preferred to ignore: Black history is American history. Not an add-on. Not a seasonal elective. A permanent record of labor, resistance, invention, faith, art, and citizenship. And yet here we are—still compressing that record into 28...

The Data Bill of Rights was first written by James Felton Keith in 2015 before the founding of The Data Union and explained on stage at the RadicalXChange conference in 2019. Here is a clip of that explanation from the RadX panel. These ideas which were once considered radical are not anymore, after the scaling of Artificial Intelligence to the every day user. Panelists James Felton Keith, Tawana...

James Felton Keith presenting on Data Unions & Labor Law with Kaliya Young, Author of The Domains of Identity at the 41st Internet Identity Workshop in Silicon Valley California. He covers the new Data Ownership policies in Europe and new uses of math inspired by Oped AI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, as he recruits the crowd to engage organized labor with the concept that Data Is Labor. Get the...

Managing Director of the Langston Hughes House joins me to discuss the critical importance of affordable housing and its impact on communities, particularly in Harlem. The video emphasizes the need for respect and value in building spaces for everyone, and how this issue affects other areas. He asks how does someone with a history like Bruce Teitelbaum get ti guy up Harlem land https://archive.is/...

Housing activists and organizers are still deeply unhappy with the affordability level in the One45 development on 145th Street and Malcolm X BLVD. A group gathered at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building on West 125th Street last Friday, July 11, to protest at Councilman Salaam’s office, led by Kai Cogsville and other activists in the "Defend Harlem" coalition. More on them...

Mark Levine has been at the forefront of advocating for more affordable, equitable and healthy communities for nearly 25 years. He’s a former bilingual math and science teacher in the South Bronx, and he founded the Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union, which today has made over $100 million of loans to local families and businesses in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. He served on the Ne...

I'm endorsing Michael Blake for NYC Mayor and here is a little bit about theFormer, NY Assemblyman and Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. https://blakefornyc.com/about/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jamesfeltonkeith.substack.com

Supreme Court sides with straight woman in 'reverse discrimination' case The court said members of a majority group don't face an extra hurdle when alleging 'reverse discrimination' in the workplace. More at inclusionscore.org This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jamesfeltonkeith.substack.com

While much of the country was focused on the presidential race during the 2024 election, New Yorkers voted on something I see as equally transformative: Proposal 1. Known as the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), this ballot initiative amended the state constitution to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and e...

JFK & The Guys are joined by Dr. Kyra Greene of the Center on Policy Initiatives in San Diego to do a deep dive into the the concept that Data is evidence of Our Labor or "Data Is Labor" and how we tie to the broader labor movement. This is a continuation of the original conversation with Dr Greene. Get the Data Is Labor book at dataislabor.com This is a public episode. If you would like to di...

Code-Switching And Other Strategies Leaders Can Use To Support Gender EquityPreviously published at Forbes https://www.keithinstitute.org/single-post/code-switching-and-other-strategies-leaders-can-use-to-support-gender-equity This is another #Inclusionism #Podcast with reflections on my experience working in #DEI with #ISO30415 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with othe...

Wage Theft and the next labor movement #DataIsLabor with Dr. Kyra Greene of the Center for Policy Initiatives, San Diego. Read their latest white paper: Unpaid & Unaware - Wage theft and labor rights enforcement in San Diego City and County https://cpisandiego.org/unpaid-and-unaware-2024/ Dr. Kyra R. Greene joined the Center on Policy Initiatives’ staff in 2014 and became the Executive Directo...

James Felton Keith is joined by Jackie Garrick and Paul Pearson of the www.whistleblowersofamerica.org Ms. Garrick founded Whistleblowers of America (WoA) as a nonprofit in 2017, which provides voluntary peer support to those suffering the impacts of Workplace Traumatic Stress. She developed the Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist© (WRC) to identify negative psychosocial impacts on victimized empl...

Black Texas Judges are under fire for doing their jobs. Join James Felton Keith and the guys as they do a deep dive on what types of political and legal attacks come with the tsk of administering justice in 2025 America.  Judge Amber Givens Website - https://www.judgeambergivens.com/   Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/judgeambergivens/ Texas Rangers Investigation Sheds Light on Amber Givens -...

I have to tell the story of how we started LGBT Pride Nights in the NFL and across America on this Super Bowl Sunday, after a misinterpretation of Roger Goodell's comments on #DEI "not going anywhere". I now realize that he meant that the NFL will keep its efforts. More at jamesfeltonkeith.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get a...

Christian Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, the first independent, democratic, worker-led labor union in American History for Amazon in Staten Island. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and a better world. Smalls was formerly an Amazon wareh...