J. Cedric Woods, of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, has served as Director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston since 2009. In this role, he has connected Native New England with university research, innovation, and education; and he has worked on projects with tribes in the areas of tribal government capacity building, Indian education, economic development, and chronic disease prevention.

Nichol Brewer-Lowry, a member of North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe, serves as Site Director for Native American LifeLines of Boston, a federally-designated Urban Indian Health Organization.  At Native American LifeLines, Nicole interfaces with local, state and federal agencies; and she leads the effort to provide health and wellness outreach, and disease prevention services to Urban American Indian communities.

Join GBH News reporter Jeremy Siegel for a panel discussion at the GBH studio at the BPL. He sits down with local transportation experts and activists from MassBike, StreetsBlogMA and Critical Mass, as well as those personally harmed by crashes. Together they examine how we talk about the impact and loss.

Coming up just before the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Traffic Crashes, hear from those most impacted by traffic crashes and those who are challenging the status quo on how they are reported. 

Scientist, engineer and artist Dr. Joy Buolamwini discusses her book UNMASKING AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines. In it, she uncovers what she calls “the coded gaze”, evidence of encoded racial and gender bias, discrimination and exclusion in tech products. On the basis of her research, Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) to show how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded” and vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Encouraging everyone to join this fight, Buolamwini writes, “The rising frontier for civil rights will require algorithmic justice. AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few.”

GBH Forum Network partners with Cambridge Forum and Harvard Book Store to record this event as part of an ongoing series: AI: Servant or Master?

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Associate Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of 'The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure', and 'The Search for Mastery', and the forthcoming book 'Vision & Justice'.

New England has a rich apparel and textile manufacturing history. The United States' industrial revolution started here, and many of the region's famous families made their first fortunes in textile, shoe, and apparel production. Over the past 40 years, much of that industry has vanished as companies have been forced to deal with ever cheaper imports from abroad.

Now, a new group of entrepreneurs is reviving every aspect of this legacy. Why are they doing it? What does it take to breathe life into a dying industry? And will they succeed?

This far-reaching conversation with journalist Rachel Slade, author of Making It in America, and Michelle Finamore, fashion historian, author, and curator, will explore New England's manufacturing legacy while exploring the ways new companies are revitalizing centuries-old industries.

Epidemiologist Joel Schwartz is noted for his work on the acute and chronic health effects of fossil fuel air pollution.  One of his recent collaborative studies revealed that exposure to fine combustion particles in the air at concentrations well below current standards are associated with a range of conditions, including dementia, asthma, heart attacks, and lung cancer.  The study indicated that the death rate from this pollution is almost 1 in 5 deaths worldwide, about twice the previous mortality estimate.  Not surprisingly, the pollution impact falls disproportionately on poorer communities.  This research is finally leading to tighter U.S. air quality standards. In this program, Dr. Schwartz discusses the wide health effects of fossil fuel pollution and why restrictions have been so lax.  

Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Schwartz’s areas of focus in epidemiology include the health effects of air pollutants, especially particulates from fossil fuels, lead and health effects of lead, and also effects of water contamination. He is known particularly for his discoveries regarding fossil fuel air pollutants and also for his influential studies on mental and physical impacts of lead pollution.

GBH News Politics Editor Azita Ghahramani moderates a discussion with local leaders for a look ahead at what is to come after Election Day. Hear from women already rolling up their sleeves again to hold space and address the issues.

This is a most exciting period for cosmology, especially for scientists whose focus is the early universe. The James Webb Space Telescope and other advanced technologies are providing unprecedented new insights about the early universe, especially the emergence of the first stars and galaxies and the relationship between these formations and mysterious dark matter. Professor Julian Muñoz explains both the newest discoveries and the techiques he uses to investigate the very early universe.