Fighting Whitewashed History With MIT's Diversity Hackers

It's a scene no one would look twice at–on a Friday afternoon at the end of January, in a gray-walled MIT computer lab, a dozen wrinkle-browed hackers stare at their screens, surrounded by coffee cups and half-eaten cookies. But this is no ordinary afternoon hack. For the next few hours, this group will lend their interdisciplinary talents to a surprisingly difficult task–editing black history into Wikipedia.
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