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...
Being responsible for bringing on and developing a diverse and incredibly talented staff is a huge task that Intel Corporation executive Rosalind L. Hudnell takes seriously. As the tech brand’s Vice President of Human Resources an...
The Be Blogalicious ‘Build Your Own Empire’ Weekend 2015 Conference (Sep 10-12)is kicking off today in Baltimore, MD at the Marriott Waterfront. What is Be Blogalicious? Be Blogalicious is a conference – a movem...
BBC is reporting that Nigeria has made it a year without declaring a single case of polio. If the World Health Organization (WHO) confirms the results, Nigeria is eligible to be removed from the list of countries where the disease...
Fresh from our “what in the hell file?” Google Photos has apologized for tagging black people as ‘Gorillas.’ Taryn Finley of the Huffington Post reported the story of Jacky Alciné, who checked his Google Ph...
Spelman College recently hosted its 11th annual Women of Color Conference (WOCC), themed “New School Leaders in the Digital Era,” at the Georgia International Convention Center. For a day-and-a-half, the women in attendance interr...
