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After the widely discussed “Who is Black in America?” aired, NewsOne sat down with host Soledad O’Brien to discuss viewer reactions and what is next for the “Black in America” series. Watch Soledad here: [ooyala code=”03ZmdqNzr_lqVibXrSFKAnsYly0HJEWQ”] RELATED: Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5′ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] Sound off!   […]

This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the “Black In America” series, which is hosted by Soledad O’Brien. In this episode, O’Brien asks the question, “Who is Black in America?” as they tackle the issues of colorism and racial identity. The documentary centers around young women who are part of a […]

At this point many of you may have heard about SOPA  (Stop Online Privacy Act) and may have thought that unless you needed to use Wikipedia yesterday that you should not care. That is actually not true.  I wanted to take the time to give you a high level understanding of what SOPA is and […]

Black in America 4 premieres tonight at 8 p.m. EST and will take a look into the technology industry and the lack of African Americans in it. It will explore whether discrimination is the main reason for the lack of Black faces in Silicon Valley, or if there are just a lack of Black technology […]

I was in the middle of my Sunday ritual of reading the tech sections of various publications when I came across a story on the New York Times website that discussed the level of effectiveness of classroom software as a means to improve leaning opportunities for youth across the company. I agree that this topic […]

U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn believes that any plan to attack the debt and deficits will not work unless it includes ways to create jobs. And while the points of his message were worth hearing, it was the method he used that really caught my eye. Last week, he conducted a virtual town hall on […]

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 […]

This past week the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) and the United States Black Chamber (USBCI) joined forces with a host of other organizations in support of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. In their June 20th letter to the Federal Communications Commission the groups said, “We urge the FCC to support the AT&T- T-Mobile merger given […]

The Obama administration, leading non-profits and business experts gathered at Rutgers University’s Newark campus on Monday for the Urban Entrepreneur Summit to help minority entrepreneurs find ways to foster wealth within their communities. The event was a rare forum that allowed minority entrepreneurs to witness personal narratives of other successful minority entrepreneurs and obtain fundamental […]

While partisan bickering persists on Capitol Hill about budgets, spending and the deficit, people seem all too wiling to turn a blind eye to one of the main culprits behind America’s debt load – inefficient administration of government programs. Take the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP), for instance, a $2.5 billion loan program administered by USDA’s […]

Recently Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. took to the floor to discuss one of the major causes of unemployment, the iPad. He made claims that the device almost single-handedly caused the demise of newspaper industry, college textbook manufacturing and the Borders bookstore chain.  You can see the video of his remarks here. His remarks were so […]

For the past two years I’ve been spreading the message that people of color are missing out on the technology startup revolution. In an era where companies can be founded and within a few years can surpass the market-caps of companies that have been in existence for decades, and companies that are created in a […]