| Measure | Count | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Black tenure-track CS faculty | ~100 | CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 |
| All tenure-track CS faculty | ~6,000 | CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 |
| Black share | ~1.7% | CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 |
| Black AI/ML faculty (subset) | <50 | Black in AI estimate, R1 institutions |
This is not a chart. It is a counting. One hundred circles in a ten-by-ten grid — one for each Black tenure-track computer science professor at a PhD-granting department in the United States. The form is deliberately simple: when a number is small enough to draw every member on a single page, the visualization should honor that by showing every single one.
Du Bois understood the power of the specific count. His 1900 plates did not always reach for sophisticated visual forms — sometimes a number, placed plainly, was the most devastating rhetoric available. This plate follows that instinct. The grid does not aggregate. It does not abstract. It presents.
This is a preview plate for conversation, drafted April 2026. The figure of ~100 is an approximation from the CRA Taulbee Survey. The production plate will cite the exact count from the most recent published report and, where possible, name the institutions where these scholars serve.