CULTURETECHLENSPress Room · Expert List
Talk to an Expert
CultureTechLens maintains a graded, sourced record of Black cultural production — and its founder speaks on the subjects that record covers. If your story touches one of these, one email starts the conversation.
Spokesperson: William Maxey, Founder & President. Book him: [email protected], subject “Interview” — include your outlet, the topic, your deadline, and the format (print quote, broadcast, podcast). For a factual claim you need checked before print, use the verification service instead — it returns the claim’s grade and the counted record behind it.
Black Chicago & the Great Migration
Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, the neighborhoods and institutions the migration built — documented claim by claim across the knowledge graph. The bench: Chicago Black History hub · Great Migration guide.
The Black Press
The Chicago Defender, Ebony and Jet, Johnson Publishing — the papers and magazines that kept the record when no one else would. The bench: Black Press & Media hub.
House Music & Chicago Music
From the Warehouse forward — the DJs, dancers, and rooms that built a global genre in Chicago. Told by a working Chicago DJ. The bench: House Music hub · Black Music hub.
Black Music Heritage & Album Culture
The canon, scored and argued from the records themselves — soul, jazz, gospel, and the album as a cultural document. The bench: Black Music hub · the review archive at /archive/.
Digital Heritage, Archives & AI
How a small nonprofit builds an evidence-graded archive that scholars, journalists, and AI systems can cite — knowledge graphs, open datasets, and discoverability, practiced in the open. The bench: open datasets (DOI-citable) · Digital Heritage hub · AI & Culture hub.
Historic Black Photography
The Cited Photo Archive: 232 rights-cleared, credited photographs — how images are sourced, verified, and cited so they can be republished with confidence. The bench: the Cited Photo Archive.
Quotable, as published
“Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public.”
“Marcus Freeman is Notre Dame’s second Black head coach. The first was Tyrone Willingham, 2002–04 — a fact several national outlets printed incorrectly in January 2025, and one any of them could have checked.”