But who is the woman behind the program? As Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape, told the New York Times in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty Crocker of software" Though the ...

Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross investigate Black representation in the Neon-backed documentary out this summer. As the documentary tells us, L’Esperance was spotted working a counter at a Los ...

Young filmmaker Jazmin Jones and her collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross put on their detective caps – possibly with tinfoil lining underneath – in the award-winning new film Seeking Mavis Beacon. The ...

U.S. film producer and distributor Neon has signed on to produce a new documentary about Mavis Beacon, known as “the most influential Black woman in technology,” who vanished without a trace in 1995.

Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross' "Seeking Mavis Beacon," distributed by Neon, examines how a Haitian-born woman went from behind a sales counter in Los Angeles to becoming an AI-made likeness and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Though the name "Mavis Beacon" might not mean much to modern-day kids, to those who came of age in the late 1980s and 1990s, it surely does. "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was a software program ...