On the conversation of how technology has been screwing over Black folks, let’s take Madeline-Michelle Carthen for a perfect, decades-old example. The Missouri woman had been fighting to prove to the government that she is in fact alive and not dead thanks to an error by the Social Security Administration.
Madeline-Michelle Carthen, a woman who was declared dead 16 years ago, is still fighting to prove that she is indeed alive. Carthen said she was getting ready for a trip to Ghana in 2007 when she realized that government records have her listed as deceased. At that time, the St. Louis woman was planning to… Continue reading Missouri Woman Fights To Prove She’s Alive After Being Mistakenly Declared Dead In 2007: ‘I Am Still Stuck, And Nobody Can Help’