The announcement came from Anchor team member Nir on a Monday, June 26. By Wednesday, June 28, Anchor 1.0 would be no more. The original beacon of collective voices would disappear into a vortex, like an old TV with a bad vacuum t...
Google.org recently pledged to double its $1 million contribution to further support the innovative social justice and community engagement work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Based in Montgomery, Ala. EJI, in partnership ...
The lights on the infamous Las Vegas strip were not all that shone brightly last week. In addition to serving as an advocacy group for American broadcasters, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) touts the largest forum o...
The National Black MBA Association® (NBMBAA®) is holding its 38th Annual National Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Tuesday Oct. 11 – 15. This year’s conference is designed to increase access to careers in manageme...
Avery Hartmans of Business Insider is reporting online travel accomodations site Airbnb has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy.” Airbnb has been in the new...
Leslie Miley hopes that Silicon Valley will become a more inclusive environment for ethnic minorities and underrepresented groups. Now the Director of Engineering for Growth at the San Francisco-based tech company Slack, the outsp...
The kids from Usher’s New Look (UNL) have a chance to tap into their hidden talents using STEAM education exercises through the nonprofit organization’s newly developed Spark Lab. The outreach effort co-founded by the best-selling...
Clare O’Connor of Forbes.com is reporting Stephanie Lampkin, an African-American woman engineer has launched an employment app that will help eliminate bias from tech hiring. O’Connor writes: “Stephanie Lampkin l...
Black Media Scoop (BMS) is reporting teen Nigerian brothers Anesi,13 and Osine, 15 Ikhianosime have developed a web browser that challenges Google Chrome. The BMS staff reports that the boys wanted a browser that loaded faster th...
The debut of live streaming app Meerkat at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March sparked the beginning of the interactive live streaming age. Now, Periscope, Blab and Facebook have followed with their formats. With mobile-friendly ap...
