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3 Black Girls Competing to Win Trip to NASA Reportedly Hacked by Racists
Although it has been reported that NASA shut down voting after a team of three black girls was handily winning a contest it sponsored, it appears that what happened was that someone hacked the system to take votes away from the girls, and that’s why the contest was shut down before the stated official voting…
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It’s in the Stars: A Wrinkle in Time Premieres in Hollywood
Just when we thought we’d recovered from all of the #BlackPantherMagic (yes, it’s a thing) on the premiere circuit, we got a stylish reminder that there’s even more black magic approaching our theaters with the March 9 release of A Wrinkle in Time. The stars came out Monday night for the family-friendly premiere in Los…
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How to Raise a World of Shuris: Jessie Woolley-Wilson on What It Takes to Get More Black Women and Girls in STEM
Who doesn’t want to be Shuri? The self-assured, witty and unapologetically brilliant younger sister of T’Challa has not only won over millions of Black Panther fans but, experts note, may also be turning a generation of young girls—black girls in particular—on to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. But is the world of STEM…
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Some Wakanda Wonderful: Black Panther’s Success Spurs Disney to Fund STEM Centers Across US
The cultural impact of Black Panther may extend even further than fans originally hoped for. On Monday, Disney announced that it would be donating $1 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to build new science, technology, engineering and math centers in director Ryan Coogler’s hometown of Oakland, Calif., as well as locations…
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Let’s Do It Again: Send Our Girls to See A Wrinkle in Time!
Black America, we turned out in record-breaking numbers last weekend to see and support the most anticipated film of the year, Black Panther. It was a triumph as epic as the film itself. But Panther isn’t the only black-helmed film being released by Disney this winter; we are now only two weeks away from the…
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Yet Another Reason Why Shuri From Black Panther Is the Greatest Disney Princess Ever
If “Don’t scare me like that, colonizer” wasn’t already enough to give Black Panther’s Shuri (depicted amazingly by Letitia Wright) the crown as the Greatest Disney Princess Ever—it was, but let’s just pretend that it wasn’t—there are dozens more reasons why she deserves it. In the last half of the movie alone, she saved a…
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Google Looks to Train More Black Engineers, but Will It Hire Them?
Google created Howard West last year as a three-month residency program for rising junior and senior computer science majors at Howard University. Students attended the program on Google’s Bay Area campus and were taught by senior Google engineers as well as Howard faculty. TechCrunc reports that after the success of the first program, the company…
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Google Gives $1,000,000 Grant to Push the Representation of Black Male Youths in Tech
Google is doling out a cool $1 million grant to an Oakland, Calif.-based organization that is dedicated to increasing representation of black male youths in tech. The Google.org grant is just one of the company’s several attempts to do better when it comes to diversity. The grant will be going to the Hidden Genius Project,…
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Intel Ponies Up $4,500,000 for STEM Scholarships at 6 HBCUs
As the numbers of women and people of color in Silicon Valley continue to be elucidated, it has become increasingly clear that there is a long way to go. One tech company, however, is investing in the talent pipeline while students are still in college, ostensibly to prepare them for work in the STEM (science,…