[EDITOR’S NOTE: Angela Benton is the founder of BlackWeb 2.0 and the new web business developer for Black entrepreneurs, the NewMe Accelerator. InteractiveOne, the parent company of NewsOne, is a supporter of the NewMe, and has given this platform to Ms. Benton to respond to a growing controversy about a preview of an upcoming episode […]
Last week, Interactive One Chief Technology Officer Navarrow Wright interviewed CNN television personality Soledad O’Brien about the network’s popular Black in America series that will premiere this November. The fourth edition, which will surely focus on the re-election campaign of President Obama — and the issue of Black unemployment — will also dedicate a large […]
If you see the news today you should know that that we are still in the midst of an unemployment crisis. Even though things have improved since the height of the recent recession, unemployment levels still are at an all time high. The areas that appear to be the hardest hit are places with high […]
Black Enterprise Magazine recently did a feature titled “The new faces of Silicon Valley.” Silicon Valley, a tech-hub that isn’t known for having many African-Americans, is undergoing a transformation thanks to several initiatives like the NewMe Accelerator. The edition features the founder of Black Web Media and the NewMe Accelerator, Angela Benton. Read more at […]
