HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM CREATE DIVERSEBOOK APP… “FOR A SOCIETY WHERE EVERYONE NEEDS A FEELING OF TOGETHERNESS” Hunterville, NC (BlackNews.com) — Husband and wife team, Barkee and Shawnetta Faust, launch a new product, a DiverseBook app. While both founded DiverseBook, which is a new Black-owned social media site that was created in a society where […]
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Worker Files Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Black Facebook employee, joined by two others who were denied jobs at the social network, has filed a complaint against the company, saying it discriminates against Black workers and applicants in hiring, evaluations, promotions and pay. The charge was filed with the Equal Employment […]
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Minority-Owned Miestro.com Paves Faster, Simpler Path for the Massive E-Learning Space Industry
By BlackPressUSA As social distancing and shelter at home became the newest challenge for burnt-out seasoned professionals to surmount in the era of COVID-19, one small company had already been helping frustrated corporate executives turn their expansive knowledge into robust revenue in the multi-billion-dollar e-learning industry. Headquartered in Atlanta, Miestro.com is a small, minority-owned, but […]
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Civil Rights Groups ‘Pause’ On Facebook Ads
By Tali Arbel Associated Press Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its platform. The groups in the “#StopHateforProfit” campaign launch, include Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Sleeping […]
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Abandoned Baby Becomes Cell Phone Tech Mogul
By Curtis Bunn Zenger News Rescued at two days old by retirement-age couple Nathan and Edith Figgers, Freddie was raised as one of their own. Later, the African-American couple formally adopted him. Both lived to see his extraordinary rise, although Nathan died in 2014 after developing Alzheimer’s disease. His cousin, Sarah Figgers, had a premonition. […]
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NASA Names Headquarters After First Black Female Engineer At NASA
By US Black Engineer NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black female engineer at NASA. Mary started her career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. A mathematician and aerospace […]
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Comcast Extends 60 Days of Free Internet Service to New Internet Essentials Customers Through the End of 2020
COMCAST EXTENDS 60-DAYS OF FREE INTERNET SERVICE TO NEW INTERNET ESSENTIALS CUSTOMERS Company’s COVID-19 Commitment to Help Households in Need Access the Internet Now Available Through the End of 2020 PHILADELPHIA – June 18, 2020 – As the current school year comes to an end, school districts across the country are already announcing plans for when […]
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Screen Time For Your Child
By Black Health Matters How much time does your child spend watching TV, movies, playing with a smartphone or computer, or enjoying video games? Although some screen time can be educational, it’s easy to go overboard. Consider this guide to children and TV, including what you can do to keep your child’s screen time in […]
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‘Live Aid’ for Gaming: How Gamers Came Together to Fight Coronavirus
By Kate Patrick Macri Zenger News Gamers are contributing with charity streams, organized virtual events and competitions to rake in money for COVID-19 relief and support for those who are feeling isolated by global quarantine measures. Adam Whyte and Scott Hiett launched You Are Not Alone, or YANA, a global gaming event to alleviate quarantine-induced […]
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Morgan State University Joins Effort to Build a Secure Smart Home
Morgan State University Joins Effort to Build a Secure Smart Home Research to Focus on Privacy and Security of ‘Smart Things’ in the Home BALTIMORE — Morgan State University has been selected to join a team of seven academic institutions that will work together on a national research project to increase the security and privacy of high-tech products […]
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Coronavirus May Kill Tech Startups
By Oliver Williams Zenger News Most unicorns are recent tech startups, initially operating in the negative until ultimately generating a profit. Those profits are more distant, however, as the global economy prepares for a post-lockdown recession. Unicorns are seeing their valuations sliced, some by 40 percent, as tracked by European company Dealroom.com. “There will be […]