Business Leaders Discuss Diversity Efforts and Race Solutions
In a recent article Susan Welch, Executive Director, Diversity Best Practices writes about the panels and conversations that took place at the Best Practice Session at Ernst & Young’s New York City headquarters. Some of the panelist included Kam Wong, the associate director of workforce diversity and compliance programs at City University of New York, [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Video Game Writers and Social Media: Latoya Peterson
As we continue our on-going coverage of African-Americans in the video game industry (see our interviews with Joseph Saulter and Jamin Brophy-Warren), we present an email interview with Latoya Peterson. A self-described media junkie, Latoya writes about race, gender, film, television, anime, manga and other elements of pop culture. She has been quoted in the [...]
Read MoreConnecting the Dots: Race and Ethnicity Via Dot Visualization
While catching the tail end of Digital Media Wire’s NY Games Conference, I happened to be perusing Facebook when I saw an interesting link from BlackPlanet co-founder Omar Wasow. The link led to a Flickr page with a collection of maps. Titled “Race and Ethnicity,” the infographics are a visual representation of the racial makeup [...]
Read MoreAfrican Americans Only 1% of Internet Start-up Founders
Black Web 2.0 has written about the importance of securing funding for Internet start-ups at various stages from the great idea to contracting the know-how to build it to the launch. Private investment research firm CB Insights has released its first ever Human Capital Venture Capital report. In part one of the report, the company takes an in-depth [...]
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