Quardean Lewis-Allen has always had a creative streak. “My mother said I couldn’t be a comedian,” he says, so he found architecture. Got his bachelor’s from SUNY Buffalo, and a master’s from Harvard. “It was mostly me thinking about how to make that profitable, to support...
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University, an international group of influential Black Stanford alumni today announced the creation of a $5 million investment fund that will provide financial support and resources to techpreneurs that are current students and...
In a bid to develop a pool of more diverse job candidates, Google is cutting out the pipeline and going right to the source. Tomorrow, Black Girls Code will celebrate the opening of a new office inside Google’s New York City building. The organization will use...
ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the singularity” — when machines become smarter than humans — have attracted millions of dollars and spawned...
Most people didn’t know Janelle Monae would be attending Moogfest 2016 in Durham. It was a well-kept secret that I was only privy to as an American Underground staff member. But as soon as I heard, I RSVP’d for every session she’d be at and...