Think pieces for an evolving canon.

Sep 6, 2026

My Speech at National Leverage Lab 2026 in Washington, DC

James Felton Keith

Aug 25, 2026

Identity Has Provenance

James Felton Keith

Aug 11, 2026

How worker data can create new income, new members, and new bargaining power

James Felton Keith

Jul 28, 2026

Artificial intelligence has created organized labor's next great bargaining opportunity—but only if we recognize what workers have been producing all along.

James Felton Keith

Jul 22, 2026

This News Broke as I was lecturing before the NAACP Labor Awards last night.

James Felton Keith

Jul 1, 2026

The future of work, ownership, and collective bargaining in the AI economy.

James Felton Keith

Jun 22, 2026

I'm receiving the 2026 Benjamin L. Hooks Keeper of the Flame Award from the NAACP National Labor Committee

James Felton Keith

Jun 16, 2026

Walk Run Roll Dance!

James Felton Keith

Jun 11, 2026

I just left the New York City Comptroller’s Pride Month Breakfast honoring human rights organizers from across the city.

James Felton Keith

Jun 9, 2026

Go Knicks!? Go Team.

James Felton Keith

Jun 8, 2026

The Public Created the Data. The Public Should Own the Future

James Felton Keith

May 30, 2026

The Next Dred Scott Is Not About AI Personhood. It's About AI Property.

James Felton Keith

May 22, 2026

Figure AI’s 200-hour, 250,000-package milestone reveals something bigger than automation: the emergence of a new economic class struggle over human data, labor replication, and ownership itself.

James Felton Keith

May 16, 2026

The Price of Human Input to the Al Economy

James Felton Keith

May 12, 2026

We cannot keep asking the Supreme Court for permission to count every vote, defend every community, or tell the truth in public.

James Felton Keith

May 11, 2026

There are new Technical DEI Standards coming! Join us for the 5th Anniversary of the DEI Standard on our first recognition of DEI Day.

James Felton Keith

Apr 29, 2026

The Court weakened the Voting Rights Act by narrowing the legal remedy. The answer is not despair. The answer is winning the offices that draw the maps.

James Felton Keith

Apr 20, 2026

Learn The Price of Human Input to the AI Economy

James Felton Keith

Apr 8, 2026

A Public Wealth Fund cannot be fair unless someone independent calculates the real price of the human data that built AI wealth.

James Felton Keith

Apr 3, 2026

The entrepreneur's Company-Of-1 has a Data Cap Table that owes us ~19.8%

James Felton Keith