By Kara Thompson, Special to the AFRO Teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) are using technology to their advantage to help keep their students engaged and up-to-date with […]
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STEM is the future. How do we get more Black kids involved?
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black Last year, an elementary school principal in rural Mississippi wanted to get her students excited about science. So, after receiving grant funding, she bought […]
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BLK, the dating app for Black singles, launches Homecoming Mode to bring HBCU students and alumni together
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com BLK, the prime lifestyle and dating app for Black singles, is helping students and alumni come together to […]
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Tech equity a key discussion during Annual Legislative Conference
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO During the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) several organizations including the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) and […]
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High schoolers launch civil rights tour app
By Word in Black Two Washington, D.C.-area high school students have created an interactive app that highlights the history of civil rights in the District. Lily and Eliza Dorton, co-founders […]
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Morgan State University students win Zillow’s HBCU Hackathon with app that measures financial credibility outside of credit scoring
By BlackPressUSA Zillow’s second HBCU Housing Hackathon, which drew more than 200 students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), awarded top prizes to teams that developed innovations to help […]
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U.S. Sen. Warnock: electric car tax credit needs ‘flexibility’
By Russ Bynum, The Associated Press U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock urged the U.S. Treasury secretary Friday to use “maximum flexibility” in implementing a revised tax credit for Americans buying electric […]
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Google searches for ‘sell my house’ hit highest point in history of U.S. internet
By AFRO Staff Americans are trying to sell their homes more than ever, according to Google search results recently released by the company. Google revealed that searches for “sell my […]
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SparkCharge is the world’s first and only mobile electric vehicle charging network
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com While studying economics and data science information management at Syracuse University, Joshua Aviv’s environmental economic professor came into […]
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Facebook parent company culls expansive Proud Boys network from sites
By Associated Press MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook parent Meta says it has removed a network of accounts linked to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group it banned […]
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Apple announces security risk; experts advise haste with latest iPhone update
By Mae Anderson and Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writers Apple regularly issues updates to the software powering the iPhone, and sometimes it’s OK to dawdle when it comes to installing […]
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Black-owned streaming platform Disctopia lets independent artists and podcasters build direct-to-fan income streams
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msaylesafro.com Patrick Hill is a self-professed hip-hop head, so when his friend asked him to burn CDs for his […]