Writing for The Root, The Burton Wire’s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. interviewed filmmaker Phill Branch about his upcoming documentary ‘Searching for Shaniqua.’ You may have heard about t...
Black pop culture curator Nelson George screened his upcoming VH1 Rock Doc, Finding The Funk, on opening night of Atlanta’s BronzeLens Film Festival. Finding The Funk, narrated by Questlove, examines the genre’s ties to the Bay Ar...
Black pop culture curator Nelson George screened his upcoming VH1 Rock Doc, Finding The Funk, on opening night of Atlanta’s BronzeLens Film Festival. Finding The Funk, narrated by Questlove, examines the genre’s ties to the Bay Ar...
Numbers don’t lie. Barbados’ ranking on the Human Development Index is now at number 38. Though this is still quite an impressive standing, it marks a downward trend since the mid-1990s. In any small business or Fortune 1000 compa...
NPR is reporting that representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are meeting this week to talk about African Americans in the tech world. According to a recent study by the National Science Foundatio...
Caribbean News Now is reporting that Grenada has become the fifth Caribbean nation to offer 100 Mbps broadband internet service to consumers. Gail Purcell, country manager of Columbus Communications Grenada Ltd, operating as FLOW,...
Pan African Magazine is reporting that Africa has 55 billionaires worth more than $143 billion including a Nigerian woman said to be the richest black woman in the world. The writer reports: “The report predictably identifie...
IT News Africa is reporting that Ghanaian Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah says that IT infrastructure costs are inflated on the continent, during the second day of the Regional Development Forum (RDF) and Regional ...
Caribbean News Now is reporting that The Broadband Commission for Digital Development has issued a report looking at several aspects of broadband and its positive effects on people, environment and society. The task force includes...
CNN is reporting what we’ve always known, Africa is undergoing a technical revolution that is producing African tech voices that need to be heard. Luckily through new technology, those voices are being heard throughout the A...