By Veronica Mitchell In 2007, Roslyn Rawlins was busy moving up in her healthcare management career and raising her family in San Diego when her 12-year-old daughter, Ryan, had her first tonic-clonic seizure. Rawlins was terrified. She knew this was going to turn their world upside down, and it did. Their medical team worked to […]
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San Diego, CA –Several years in the making and a Comic-Con International exclusive limited run edition, from hop-hop artist, Lazarus Guidry comes the universe of Reign of the Underdog Featuring Lazarus. The 24 page full color, adult comic story told in a 6 part mini series is set to debut at Comic-Con as part of a never seen
SAN DIEGO, CA (July 2019) – Staying true to his history as an African American pioneer and trailblazer in the film industry as well as in the video game world, acclaimed director Matty Rich spearheads yet another “first” at the 50thYear Anniversary of Comic-Con. The multicultural, female led executive and creative team at EDGE XR will unveil
What a huge blessing! Pioneering physicist and mathematician Mrs. Katherine Johnson, turns 100 today! #HiddenFigureNoMore If you recall, many folks hadn’t hear a peep about Kathrine Johnson prior to the Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures,” starring Taraji P. Henson. Johnson, along with two other black women, her colleagues Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughn, are the subject
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(San Diego, CA) Community members in Southeastern San Diego, are on a mission to make sure that Black youth are exposed to STEM based careers. The educational event held at Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, is just one out of a series of events hosted by long time community activist/education advocate, Philip Liburd and son
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JAY-Z and Roc Nation have announced a $3 million investment in Promise, an app that will combat mass incarceration. According to the application’s website, it was created to “get people out of jail and provide ongoing support and supervision to help keep them out,” by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Diana Frappier. The partnership hopes the platform
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SAN FRANCISCO – November 11, 2017- Actor and Technology Entrepreneur, Jesse Williams, announced the release of his first mobile game app, BLeBRiTY. The announcement was made at Blavity’s AFROTECH Conference, the largest African-American tech conference in Silicon Valley. Comedy and color run deep in this exciting new game now available exclusively from the App
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The social network giant Twitter announced on Tuesday it is doubling how many characters users can cram into a tweet. Most tweets will now fit 280 characters, up from 140. The new limit will roll out to Twitter users in almost all 40 languages Twitter supports. The new character length won’t apply to Japanese,
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In collaboration with NCWIT (National Center For Women & Information Technology, Bella Graham Consulting, and Eileen Kahn Consulting, Google hosted a special event exploring how STEM and computer science can take many forms in our everyday lives, specifically in the arts. The event, Dress Code, is for LA-based high school students to show them that coding careers
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Did you know today is International Emoji Day?! Meet the first full Emoji-Only music video in the world by an African artist. The multi-award winning Afro-pop group, Sauti Sol, a Kenyan band formed in Nairobi has released a hot new single & full EMOJI video, FRIEND ZONE, written and produced by Sauti Sol. The release is accompanied by a
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