InteractiveOne Chief Technology Officer Navarrow Wright appeared in tonight’s edition of Black in America 4 which focused on the lack of African Americans in Silicon Valley and the technology industry. During the show, Wright implored some of the members of the NewMe Accelerator to be harder on themselves, and to make sure they show up […]
Mario Armstrong has too many titles to even name. But we will this one time. He’s a tech expert, tech show host, commentator, digital lifestyle expert, small business technology advocate, and youth tech motivator. Continue livetweeting here With the exploration by CNN of Blacks in the technology industry in their newest Black in America series […]
Company: Playd Age: 25 Hometown: Newark, N.J. After graduating from high school, I was living a seriously bum life. I was sitting around doing nothing on the couch, playing the video games I’d loved for years. Eventually I knew I had to change something, and I had an itch to start creating. I started contributing […]
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 […]
Dwight Myers, the rapper known as Heavy D, will be laid to rest at the historic Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, New York, this coming Friday, November 18. The cemromony is scheduled to begin at 11am and will be led by Senior Pastor Reverend Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, who will deliver the eulogy. A […]
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded the skeptical leaders of Russia and China for support in reining back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but without winning public endorsement from either man. See also: Republican Debate: Candidates Call For Military Strikes On Iran, Return Of Waterboarding See also: Nelson George’s Beijing Neither Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nor […]
There’s been a lot of talk lately: Racism in tech, lack of access to capital for minority and women startups, low numbers of black engineers in tech. Whew. Drama, intrigue sexism… It’s a search engine optimization expert’s wet dream. However, to a guy like myself who has started a company — and to many black […]
“Black In America 4” may have left viewers with an “inaccurate impression” that there are no Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, says TheRoot.com.
Wayne Sutton has been asking venture-capital investors and Silicon Valley executives a question that’s not often broached here in the epicenter of the technology industry: “Why aren’t there more black people in tech?” The vast majority of top executives at the leading Silicon Valley tech firms are white men. Women and Asians have made some […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — Anti-Wall Street protesters and their supporters flooded a city park area in Portland early Sunday in defiance of an eviction order, and authorities elsewhere stepped up pressure against the demonstrators, arresting nearly two dozen. Crowds converged on two adjacent downtown Portland parks where protesters are camped after city officials set a midnight […]
SAN DIEGOÂ — The widow of Medgar Evers broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of a new Navy ship that has been named in honor of the slain civil rights leader. Myrlie Evers was among a thousand people who attended the christening of the USNS Medgar Evers in San Diego on Saturday. Naval […]
