AOL’s New News Site Starts Out Color-Free
by Lesly Simmons
Last week the Journalism Educators Association hosted their fall national high school journalist’s conference in Washington, DC, and I was honored to host a session for a small group of young writers. Early estimates say there were more than 6,000 high school journalists from across the country attending, and their excitement was visible—a couple of Metro stops from the convention hotel I noticed groups of kids with cameras and note pads out capturing stories.
Read MoreInside the Black Googler Network
by Black Digerati
Below is a video of Googler Bryan talking about his personal experiences as a member of the Black Googler Network (BGN), which is an employee resource group at the company. I am actually glad to see a resource like this at Google because their founders are real big on a diverse workforce.
Read MoreForbes Partners with UnityFirst.com to Distribute Diversity-Focused Business News
by Markus Robinson
Forbes Magazine has teamed up with Unityfirst.com to distribute diversity-focused special advertising sections produced by Forbes Custom Solutions as well as to share other diversity and business news generated by Unity First. The Forbes special sections and other business news about diversity will be shared throughout the UnityFirst.com network, including its quarterly e-magazine and [...]
Read MorePeeps of the Web: Billy Johnson, Jr.
by Angela
This week we spoke with Bill Johnson, Jr. Billy is the Senior Program Director – Urban at Yahoo! Music and was kind enough to take the time out to chat with us about what he does at Yahoo! He also gives some great tips on how to get hired at Yahoo! and how [...]
Read MoreWe Got Game
by Jade
With this past week’s E3 Expo , I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about video games in the black community. As a percentage of the population, we are disproportionately represented in the gaming community in terms of how much we spend. We love gaming! There is a “Black Gamers for Obama Community” and an [...]
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