Soulja Boy’s Epic Gaming Battle
Posted by Jade
I remember it like it was yesterday. My aunt came out to visit us in small town Minnesota for my 6th birthday. With her she carried a very special gift, a gift that would change my life: Nintendo. The one with duck hunt. I hooked it up to the busted TV [...]
Read MoreCodeblack Redesign
Posted by Jade
Codeblack recently redesigned, and the first word that comes to mind is sleek. As was their previous design, the homepage again uses muted grays and blacks to make a solid statement and a great backdrop for multi-media presentations.
If you aren’t familiar with Codeblack they tout themselves as “the first on-demand network exclusively serving fans [...]
Q&A: Lauri Lyons, First black female Getty Photog
Posted by Jade
As traditional and new media become more and more intertwined it is always interesting to speak to people who are involved with the more traditional medias about their methods, to see how they differ from those that are purely new media based and how they see the intersection of traditional and new media. We [...]
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Ebony, Jet and Google
Posted by Jade
It is really great to see this company continuing to use the tools that are out there to digitize their content. Back in October we were happy to announce that EbonyJet had joined YouTube to put up their archives. Yesterday news stories were all over the place about Google putting up old magazine archives [...]
Read MoreVoyages: Slavery Online
Posted by Jade
A tweet originally posted by @guykawasaki from @TheJennTafur let us know about a new history initiative that was launched by Emory University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a project that took two years to bring to life online and pulled from data collected since the [...]
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