Every year Big Brother contestants agree to be totally isolated from society for the duration of the season. This means they miss major news events.  On rare occasions producers break the cardinal rule and reveal really important information, like the September 11 attacks, the presidential election results, and the COVID-19 outbreak (which ramped up during […]

A closer look at the data behind Big Brother’s notorious live feeds outages

From slave patrols to Jim Crow to the war on drugs, the history of police brutality in black America looks like a recurring nightmare.

Cook County and Chicago coronavirus data reveal more than 85 percent of coronavirus deaths were linked to three conditions.

Despite daily televised updates and frequent data dumps, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city of New York have been hesitant to publish neighborhood-level stats showing the impact of COVID-19 on the four boroughs. That is until yesterday afternoon, when the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released zip-code level COVID-19 data via its Github […]

The image of three glum Big Brother contestants wearing obnoxious scouting uniforms while sitting in front of host Julie Chen-Moonves will go down as one of the reality competition’s most embarrassing moments.

I spent a year counting the times I experienced this age-old type of racial profiling

In celebration of Black History Month, here’s a look at the African-American innovators who paved the way for digital storytelling.