About Project “Past Due”
Professor Gary Vause, II proposes the number one health risk to American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) to be "Racial Trauma."
Project Past Due was created to perform data-driven investigations about the inequities to ADOS resulting from this trauma.
The notion and motivational origins of inspiration for the Project Past Due concept created by Professor Gary Vause, II were derived entirely from the pure definition of 'past due' and the last speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking on how “America has given the negro people a "bad-check".
Past Due is defined as a status that has anything due that has not been paid.
Project Past Due will contribute to the research of health equity and economic empowerment for ADOS using data-driven narratives to demonstrate evidence of "trauma" as the number one health risk historically and presently impacting ADOS. This Cross-cultural Data Literacy Project is about digital activism, data humanism, and economic empowerment as an opportunity for social innovation based on health equity development for ADOS.
"Data" has become an essential trigger in present day life and is significant in different visions of the future as it relates to a wide range of practical applications. This datafication project will demonstrate that data can facilitate civic and community engagement as a resource to sanction transparency, accountability, innovation and participation. Project Past Due will integrate data humanism philosophy as one of several core principles.
Professor Gary Vause's "Project Past Due" concept was personally endorsed by the late Reverend C. T. Vivian, a close friend and lieutenant of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
The Reverend C. T. Vivian was a prominent mentor of Professor Gary Vause, II.