Science & Technology

My Lungs Are Physically Sore From Laughing So Hard At These 16 Black Twitter Tweets From The Week  BuzzFeed Source link

Real estate developer Booker Washington, founder of Techie Homes, is set to open Union Park Cottages, a Black-owned micro-home community featuring a technology lab and coffee shop.  The project aims to make homeownership more accessible in the area, while also creating community engagement and economic growth . . .

Detroit-based Gilbert Family Foundation has announced a $1.2 million investment in Black Tech Saturdays (BTS), a network for Black professionals and entrepreneurs in tech. The funding will strengthen BTS’s operational capacity, expand its reach, and enable Detroit’s tech innovators to access essential resources for growth. In addition, the grant will create a stronger pipeline from other […]

This article by Cassie Freund was originally published on Massive Science. Credit: Andre Hunter/Unsplash Academia, including the sciences, is rife 

Harlem Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, participants sought to reconceptualize “the Negro” apart from the white stereotypes

Since digital technologies first emerged about 30 years ago, Black Americans have trailed in terms of access. This “digital divide” is real, it’s important and we can do better.  According to our analysis of data from the American Community Survey, 40 percent of Black Americans do not have high-speed, fixed broadband at home, compared to 28 percent […]

Overview: Based on past data or educational models, software for A.I programs is often written by white computer engineers unaware of concepts like strductural racism or implicit bias. This story is part of “Black Minds, AI Future,” Word In Black’s series exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on teaching and student achievement. Hailed as the […]

Two things can be true at once: marginalized communities suffer the detriment of digital and economic inequity; and Black businesses have thrived post-pandemic using the benefits of digital integration to strengthen and drive the Black ecosystem.  Coupled with the pressures to achieve economic development and combat capital discrimination, Black business owners have shown resilience, accounting […]

When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison. But in the fired-up debate about Musk’s intent that followed, as the world’s richest man insisted he wasn’t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on whether his roots in apartheid-era […]