A growing number of people, celebrities included, have publicly expressed their support of black-owned businesses. But, at times, it can be difficult to find where certain products or services from black-owned business are available to consumers. One woman just came up with an innovative solution...
WASHINGTON D.C (August 11, 2016) – In an effort to increase the diversity of engineering faculty, the National Science Foundation awarded $2.9 Million to the following leading national engineering diversity organizations: Great Minds in STEM (GMiS), American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), MAES: Latinos...
Women tend to be under-represented in startup accelerators and incubators, especially tech programs. No secret there. Consider this: A recent survey of eight tech programs by JP Morgan Chase & Co. and the Institute for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) found that just...
In 2014, Detroit had more than 78,000 vacant buildings, and now local entrepreneurs are transforming some of those abandoned buildings into indoor farms to produce local foods. This new concept is growing (no pun intended) to include vacant spaces used to produce lettuce, basil, kale,...
Iyore Olaye reached a major milestone. She recently graduated from Ivy League Cornell University with a unique achievement. She was the only Black female in the 2016 chemical engineer class. The Hillside, New Jersey native finished school in May and shared her accomplishment on Facebook Tuesday. “Three...