For the first article, Making a case for black digital humanities, the author claims “Black people’s subsistence and resistance to the complex oppressive systems of slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and police brutality, across time and space makes black lives ground zero for a technology of recovery using social media…” (p.44). More than 150 years after the passing of the 13th amendment and almost 60 years after the Civil Rights Act, people of color are still being marginalized and there are many modern instances where they are struggling to be seen as an equal human being. This also shows that laws are not enough to stop racism in its track because it’s not the laws themselves that are racist, its people that are and laws just gave them one more reason to be that way.