11/01/2012 - 16:59
There are African-Americans who did not vote in the 1876 election who never again got the opportunity. It had only been six years since the 15th Amendment affirmed their right to vote. The Hayes-Tilden Compromise that resulted from the close election meant a reversal of the gains of the Civil War and abolition movement. Forty black congressmen declined to zero by 1905. Jim Crow held forth for 90 years until the Voting Rights Act of 1968.
10/31/2012 - 18:42
TRENTON -- John Harmon, president of the African-American Chamber of Commerce in New Jersey, was counting his blessings to have power and no damage Wednesday, but he couldn't escape a chuckle at the newfound enthusiasm of Gov. Chris Christie for federal support.
09/25/2012 - 17:02
CAMBRIDGE -- If a young Cardinal Warde could launch rockets from a Barbados beach as a teen, then he believes there's no reason millions of young people can not ascend to the heights of science.
Dr. Warde, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, is considered one of the world's leading experts on materials, devices and systems for optical information processing. Warde holds key patents on spatial light modulators, displays, and optical information processing systems. He is a co-inventor of the microchannel spatial light modulator, membrane-mirror light shutters based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), an optical bistable device, and a family of charge-transfer plate spatial light modulators.
09/25/2012 - 16:02
NEW YORK CITY -- When President Obama annnounced the National Bioeconomy Blueprint in April, he had researchers like Dr. Debra Auguste in mind as drivers of economic and scientific growth.
09/18/2012 - 18:51
SACRAMENTO -- California's public pension funds invest much lower percentages of their funds with minority-owned investment banks than comparable states, according to testimony from Edward Dandridge, president and CEO of the National Association of Investment Companies.
09/15/2012 - 18:33
ROCKVILLE -- Powertek Corporation has been awarded a task order under the Department of Defense’s Net-Centric Integrated Enterprise Technologies Solutions contract vehicle to provide information technology operations front office support for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), WHS supported organizations, and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
Nancy Scott, President and CEO of Powertek, is among the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology gathering in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 15 for Innovation & Equity: Keeping America First in Technology: Public Innovation and Supplier Diversity.
“Powertek is proud of the trust and confidence that have been placed in us and we look forward to continuing to help DoD achieve mission success by implementing advanced technologies, process improvements, and cost savings, ” said Scott.
09/12/2012 - 23:51
PALO ALTO -- Roy Clay Sr. helped set the most significant wealth generator in American history in motion-- technology driven initial public offerings fueled by venture capital -- by doing something he almost got fired over.
The Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame member recalls, "Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, the super stars of venture capital, started Silicon Valley with my product, Tandem Computers, in 1972. Bill Hewlett threatened to fire me if I did not immediately terminate the project. Tom Perkins left HP to start KPCB. Tandem was the IPO that started Silicon Valley."
09/03/2012 - 01:26
SAN FRANCISCO -- "If God is real, why does he let so much bad stuff happen?"
The question would have been on the minds of the 1658 slave work crew which built the first major road in New York City or the 300 Africans brought into slavery in 1664 aboard the New Gideon on Staten Island.
Red Hook Summer, the latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn, asks how a relatively affluent pre-teen from Atlanta with his own IPad 2 in 2012 could pose that question.
