Kamal Al-Mansour

Kamal Al-Mansour is an African American programmer and artist. Al-Mansour designed, patented, and sold CPTime, a collection of new media and images featuring people of color in the late 1980s.[1][2] Al-Mansour, while working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, founded a software company called AfroLink to create software that reflected Black culture[3] and to address racial inequalities in US public education.[4] The AfroLink bulletin board system contained half a gigabyte of media files to increase access to what Al-Mansour called "blackware."[5] AfroLink tools were used by HBCUs and public schools as educational resources on Black history and medicine.[6][2] Al-Mansour is now an digital artist who focuses on digital collage.[7]

Further reading
  • Housley, Cathren (13 November 2019). "Redemption: National show at Skye Gallery explores the moral economy". Motif. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  • "Software Aims to Broaden Cultural Access". Janesville Gazette. March 19, 1995.
  • "Black Software for Personal Computers". Kingston Gleaner. April 27, 1990. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  • Lorek, L.A. (March 13, 1995). "Software Focuses on Black History, Issues". Santa Ana Orange County Register.

References
  1. McIlwain, Charlton D. (2020). Black software: the internet and racial justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-19-086384-5.
  2. "Technology". Education Week. 7 November 1990. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  3. "Experiencing Tech". Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. November 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  4. Slater, Robert Bruce (Spring 1994). "Will Blacks in Higher Education be Detoured Off the Information Superhighway?". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (3): 96. doi:10.2307/2963118.
  5. Andrews, Paul (Sep 24, 1990). "Afrolink Software Inc.: First Of Its Kind, Afrolink Software Puts Issues On Line". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  6. Samuels, Anita M. (28 February 1993). "Making a Difference; Black Culture, Computerized". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  7. Bodnya, Caroline. "Artist Kamal al Mansour reflects on exhibition on display in BCC". The Vanderbilt Hustler. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
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