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“Culture, Clearly Seen.” Black Cultural Intelligence

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About and Verification

One page that proves we are who we say we are — and tells you how to check.

Legal identity

Legal nameCULTURETECHLENS NFP
Brand nameCultureTechLens
FormIllinois domestic not-for-profit corporation
Illinois File #75228759
IncorporatedJuly 10, 2025
EIN39-3143901
Tax status501(c)(3) public charity — 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)
Exemption effectiveJuly 10, 2025
IRS determination letterAugust 29, 2025
NTEE codeA25 (Arts, Culture and Humanities)

CultureTechLens is operated by CULTURETECHLENS NFP, a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) public charity.

Mission

“CultureTechLens is Chicago’s Black cultural intelligence platform, curating the intersection of history, athletics, music, and technology through a lens of cultural preservation and analysis.”

Leadership

  • William Maxey — President and founder
  • Keanna Marshall — Secretary-Treasurer
  • Sheila Maxey — Director

More at the founder page.

Official profiles

These are the profiles we claim. Anything not on this list is not us.

Contact

Websiteculturetechlens.com
Email[email protected]
Phone(773) 310-9828
MailPO Box 379244, Chicago, IL 60637

Corrections policy

We would rather be corrected than wrong. If you find an error in any CultureTechLens publication — a date, a name, a number, a credit — email [email protected] with the page URL and what should change. Verified corrections are published at the corrections log with the original text, the corrected text, and the date. We do not silently edit.

Cite as: CultureTechLens, “About and Verification,” 2026-10-05.

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From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941
Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941
Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Trust & evidence

Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.

Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — none to date.