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Jun 8, 2026

The Next Dred Scott Is Not About AI Personhood. It's About AI Property. When France recently repealed remnants of slavery-era legislation nearly two centuries after the abolition of slavery, many observers treated the event as symbolic. Slavery had long been abolished. No court was enforcing the ownership of human bein

Apr 21, 2026

Listen Now AT THIS LINK 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 va

Mar 27, 2026

JFK is joined by Thinking Outside the Boardroom: Creative Solutions in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism which is now available in Audio Book https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Outside-Boardroom-Solutions-Anti-racism/dp/1779623135 She is a certified D&I Professional in ISO-3.5140 Get certified at ISO35140ISM.c

Mar 19, 2026

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 act

Mar 8, 2026

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. Large Employers

Feb 27, 2026

Brittany Nicole Kaiser is the former business development director for Cambridge Analytica, which collapsed after details of its misuse of Facebook data became public. Cambridge Analytica potentially influenced voting in the UK Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. She joins James Felton Keith for

Feb 20, 2026

Gerald Carter, Founder of Diversity Photos sues Adobe and tells his story of Data Theft on the Inclusionism Podcast. The case was recently featured in Forbes at this link . James Felton Keith, author of Data Is Labor and attorney Reg Greene talk to Gerald Carter who the legal process and remedies going forward.

Feb 18, 2026

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 implem

Dec 6, 2025

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 Arti

Oct 24, 2025

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

Jul 22, 2025

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 wit

Jul 20, 2025

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 Cogsvi

Jun 18, 2025

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 famili

Jun 16, 2025

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/

Jun 6, 2025

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

May 4, 2025

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,

Apr 30, 2025

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 Lab

Apr 7, 2025

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

Mar 17, 2025

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

Feb 24, 2025

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 Retaliati

Feb 18, 2025

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.co

Feb 9, 2025

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

Jan 26, 2025

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 c

Jan 20, 2025

Discussing Values, Unions, & Equity with Reginald "Reg" Greene. More on Reg at https://www.linkedin.com/in/reggreene/ When Reginald joined Teach for America in 2004 his goal was to gain further insight into the intractable problems in the public education system that marginalize students, particularly children of color

Jan 15, 2025

Peter is still convincing James to to this podcast and take it back to radio, and towards the end he stumbles on the problem that exploring values can help with: resentment. More at JamesFeltonKeith.com As always James Felton Keith and Peter Willumsen explore our values that prevent other people from gaining access the

Jan 12, 2025

Guest: Attorney & Educator Reginald "Reg" Greene JFK & Peter discuss the current state of education, journalism, and communications in this increasingly fractured American political environment.