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At SXSW Interactive, Making Diversity in Tech the Next Civil Rights Fight
It isn’t exactly news that the tech world has a diversity problem. At this year’s South by Southwest Interactive—the tech portion of the annual music, film and interactive festival known as SXSW, which begins Thursday in Austin, Texas—black tech leaders will be looking at ways to address it. MVMT50 helped SXSW land the Rev. Jesse…
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"I Like Big Butts. And I Cannot Lie." Says Science
I don’t know exactly when it happened. I suspect it occurred sometime during the second semester of my freshman year in high school, but I don’t know why then or what caused it. What I do know, though, is that butts came out of nowhere. I never paid much attention to girl’s butts before then.…
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If Obama and Activists Really Want Police Reform, They Have to Roll Up Their Sleeves and Work on the States
Imagine the president of the United States calls you and asks that you reform more than 17,000 independent government agencies throughout the country, with no oversight, no federal authority and not much of a budget. And, by the way, you have to do it in 90 days. That’s essentially what happened when President Barack Obama…
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Secretary Moniz’s Energy Department Joins With Johnnetta Cole’s Art Museum to Focus on Minorities in STEM
President Barack Obama’s administration is continuing a focused push to get more African Americans into the technology and energy sectors. The Department of Energy launched the Minorities in Energy Initiative in 2013 during National Hispanic Heritage Month, and on Wednesday the department sponsored a Minorities in Energy Initiative event at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum…
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Pittsburgh’s Police Chief—the #EndWhiteSilence Twitpic Cop—Isn’t What He’s Cracked Up to Be
Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay was praised across the nation when he was photographed on New Year’s Eve holding a sign that said, “I resolve to challenge racism @ work #EndWhiteSilence.” It provided stark contrast to the incompetence of cops in Ferguson, Mo., the belligerence of police unions in New York and the hostility that many departments were…
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Monday’s Dori Maynard Memorial Service to Be Livestreamed
Monday’s memorial service in Oakland for Dori J. Maynard, the president of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education who died at 56 on Tuesday after battling lung cancer, will be livestreamed, the institute announced Sunday night. The Bay Area News Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune among its 11 daily newspapers, 27 weeklies and other…
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FCC’s Open-Internet Vote Receives Mixed Reviews
Hispanic Journalists Rejoice; Rainbow PUSH Not So Much “In approving strong net neutrality regulations, the Federal Communications Commission fulfilled a decade long desire by public interest advocates, technology firms and Democrats to tighten government oversight of the Internet to prevent abuses by broadband service providers,” Jim Puzzanghera reported Friday for the Los Angeles Times. “But…
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According to a New Study, Blacks Are Losing Out to—Wait for It—African Americans
It’s not news that there’s often a racialized black tax associated with “black-sounding” names. You’re more likely to get called back for a job interview if you apply as Sarah Jones than you are as Tasha Jenkins. Some people try giving their kids less black-sounding names, but the reality is that latent racism can activate…
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The Fate of the Chicago Little League Team Is About Baseball Being Siphoned Out of Urban Communities
Writers Link Circumstances to Conditions on South Side The sad story of Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League team, stripped of its hard-fought 2014 U.S. championship title, is starting to depart from the pat story line of hard-working young black teammates punished for the deeds of the rule-breaking adults in charge of them. The team gave up…
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On Falling And Staying Madly And Deeply In Love With…The Library
I still remember my first library card. It was tan and all the private information that could be used for identity theft — name, age, face, favorite member of SWV, etc — was typed on its face. I don’t remember it because I have a great memory, but because my mom still has it. She is…