Black Scientists' Task Force

11/15/2025

11/15/2025

11/15/2025

Our next Conversations with a Chemist webinar is here! This month’s session, “Glow Up, Not Toxic: A Youth Night on Safer Beauty,” is all about helping Black youth explore beauty, body autonomy, and ingredient safety in a fun, accessible way.

Moderated by BWW Program Manager Tyla Adams, we’ll hear from two brilliant STEM leaders:

Kristian Franklin — Cosmetic chemist and Founder/CEO of Angelic Organics, creating clean, plant-based products for healthy curls and scalp wellness.

Kristen Wells-Lewis — Scientist, STEM educator, and Founder of Black to the Lab, bringing beauty science to life through hands-on learning and safer beauty education.

Tap the link in our bio to join the conversation.

08/28/2025

Screening: Short movies by African-Canadian Women, Panel discussions, Award Ceremony and After-Party.

12/06/2024

The United Healthcare CEO killing shines a light on the relationship between business, technology and humanity, and I must say, even I was caught off guard to learn that an AI algorithm and not humans is evaluating and denying health insurance claims.

A lawsuit filed in 2023 by the families of former beneficiaries alleges that United Healthcare knew that the AI being used had a 90% error rate but continued to use it anyway because a higher denial rate meant higher profits generated.

United Healthcare denied an astonishing 30% of claims last year compared to Kaiser Permanente, for example, another big healthcare insurer that denied just 7% of claims.

AI is essentially being used to rip people off! Deceitfully allowing these types of companies to get away with it because they can pass the blame onto the machine for denials and not taking any responsibility—a conscious-free way to even bigger profits.

More here: https://byblacks.com/opinion/item/3750-united-healthcare-ai-and-its-inverse-relationship-with-humanity