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African American children are the most likely consumers of digital technology but are rarely exposed to what it takes to create it, says Leshell Hatley, whose nonprofit, Uplift Inc., won a $162,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Competition. She’s using the money to fund YouthAppLab and teach African American and Latino children in Washington, D. C., how to build mobile apps.
For decades, African Americans have been hit with what has been called the “Black tax.†Regardless of our income level, we’re continually overcharged when we make just about every major...
Marketing is a reality of our everyday lives. Everywhere we turn, we see it, smell it, and live it. Technology has given all of us access to tools that can help us with marketing. Tools like Twitter and Tumblr enable us to send our message to the masses in an instant. But what are you truly trying to say?
The 2011 Optima gets a sportier makeover that adds some stiff competition to the midsize market
Critics have called them a race-based anachronism. Others have said worse: They’re inferior, they’re in need of a new mission, or should be managed by for-profit entities. Yet, the data show that historically black colleges and universities contribute significantly to the black middle class and the nation’s economy, and with fewer resources graduate impressive numbers of majors in education and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Although most have a majority black student body, the faculty at many HBCUs is strikingly diverse, sometimes more than 50% nonblack. Moreover, these institutions have never discriminated on the basis of race. But, in an age of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S., do we still need HBCUs?
