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03.11.2024 | National Politics | Harris, Obamas and voting rights leaders work to turn out Black voters in run-up to Election Day | Democratic efforts have ranged from vigorous door-knocking campaigns in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia this weekend to swing state rallies. Michelle Obama rallied voters in Norristown, Pennsylvania on Saturday alongside Grammy award-winn... |
31.05.2024 | Fact checking Trump's remarks after historic conviction in "hush money" trial | Former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial concluded Thursday with a historic conviction, and in remarks in New York Friday morning, Trump continued to repeat false or misleading claims that framed the legal verdict as a parti... |
16.05.2024 | New "Love Has No Labels" PSA Inspires Acts of Love to Combat Bias and Hate | The Ad Council's newest PSA, in partnership with R/GA, encourages individuals to act with love and combat division and hate
NEW YORK, May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Ad Council released the latest iteration of its Emmy-Award winning... |
25.08.2022 | Amalgamated Bank review: Socially responsible bank that doesn't fund fossil projects
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07.10.2021 | HubSpot : 16 Web Design Trends to Watch in 2021 | The landscape of web design is always evolving.
Something that looked modern and fresh yesterday can appear dated seemingly overnight, and trends once dismissed as irrevocably passé can unexpectedly cycle back in vogue.
Still, one thing rem... |
02.08.2021 | American Express Awards 25 Black-Owned Small Businesses With $25K in Funding From Grants | August 2, 2021 3 min read This story originally appeared on Business Insider
The well-known credit card provider and financial services company, American Express, has been helping Black businesses recover from COVID-19’s negative impact.
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21.05.2021 | AMC NETWORKS INC.
STAFF ME UP, HUE YOU KNOW & HOLLYWOOD LEADERS ANNOUNCE ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR INDUSTRY TO FULFILL #CHANGEHOLLYWOOD ROADMAP: EXPANDED PRODUCTION HIRING PLATFORM TO ELEVATE AND EM... | ON THE HEELS OF REIMAGINED INCLUSION RIDER, STAFF ME UP LAUNCHES CODED FOR INCLUSION, AN EFFORT LED BY #CHANGEHOLLYWOOD SUPPORTERS AMC NETWORKS, ENDEAVOR CONTENT, AND OUTLIER SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP, WITH HUE YOU KNOW AND COLOR OF CHANGE LEADING... |
06.05.2021 | On the Market: Check out open tech jobs for the common good at GET Cities, Color of Change and more | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings. Have a submission? Email us at dc@technical.ly.
As part of our 2021 editorial calendar, May is Tech for the Common Good month here at Technical.ly. Echoing l... |
20.04.2021 | AIRBNB, INC.
Airbnb : Activism and Allyship Guide | Last year Airbnb published a guide designed by the company's Black@ employee resource group to help interested people become better allies. The guide has been updated to reflect additional references to work from activists and experts in an... |
12.03.2021 | Big Tech companies cannot be trusted to self-regulate: We need Congress to act | Arisha Hatch Contributor
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Arisha Hatch is Vice President and Chief of Campaigns at Color Of Change.
It’s been two months since Donald Trump was kicked off of social media following the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill in... |
09.03.2021 | Tech leaders discuss how social media is broken and what we can do about it | Toxic culture, deadly conspiracies and organized hate have exploded online in recent years. At TechCrunch Sessions: Justice we talked with Color of Change’s Rashad Robinson, Accountable Tech’s Jesse Lehrich and Naj Austin, of Somewhere Good... |
23.02.2021 | Here’s Everyone Who Wants Biden To Cancel Student Loan Debt (It’s A Big List) | WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 22: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an announcement related to ... [+] small businesses at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building February 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Presiden... |
23.02.2021 | Small Business Owners: What You Need To Know About The New PPP Rules | What would LA be without tacos? Thousands of food businesses led by immigrants can benefit from new ... [+] PPP rules. Camino Financial |
16.02.2021 | Huge Majority Of Black Voters Support Cancelling Student Debt | WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he makes a statement at the South ... [+] Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Building February 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden made a statement on the coup i... |
16.02.2021 | Imagine a better future for social media at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice | Toxic culture, deadly conspiracies and organized hate have exploded online in recent years. We’ll discuss how much responsibility social networks have in the rise of these phenomena and how to build healthy online communities that make soci... |
29.01.2021 | CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb stopped being a ‘hands-off’ platform earlier than other tech companies because customers got ‘physically hurt’ | Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Airbnb ditched “hands-off” moderation earlier than rivals, CEO Brian Chesky told Bloomberg Thursday.
The company addressed issues more quickly because customers got “physically hurt,” Chesky said.... |
29.01.2021 | CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb stopped being a 'hands-off' platform earlier than other tech companies because customers got 'physically hurt' | Airbnb ditched "hands-off" moderation earlier than rivals, CEO Brian Chesky told Bloomberg Thursday.
The company addressed issues more quickly because customers got "physically hurt," Chesky said.
Chesky also explained w... |
29.01.2021 | CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb stopped being a 'hands-off' platform earlier than other tech companies because customers got 'physically hurt' | Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. Mike Segar/Reuters
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Airbnb ditched "hands-off" moderation earlier than rivals, CEO Brian Chesky told Bloomberg Thursday.
The company addressed issues more quickly because customers got "phys... |
09.01.2021 | This Week in Apps: Social apps react to riots, Parler gets booted, FTC threatens regulation | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 bill... |
02.12.2020 | Pinterest shareholders are suing the company over allegations of discrimination against women and employees of color | Pinterest shareholders sued the company, top executives, and board of directors on Tuesday, accusing them of harming investors by creating and perpetuating a culture of racial and sex discrimination.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday by a Rhode I... |
25.10.2020 | Modified Jewelry Aims To Be The Hallmark Of The Future | At the start of 2020, the American jewelry industry seemed destined for success. Constantly playing with warm earth tones, exciting textures and the concept of proudly wearing your heritage on your sleeve, it seemed a safe time and space to... |
24.09.2020 | Purpose At Work: How Vans Unlocks Growth And Impact Through A Genuine Commitment To Community | Purpose At Work: How Vans Unlocks Growth and Impact Through A Genuine Commitment To Community PHOTO PROVIDED BY VANS |
17.08.2020 | Get to Know Our Racial Equity Partners Championing Justice and Opportunities for All | It’s no secret that in the United States, there are disparities in our society that cut across racial lines. Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) disproportionately experience injustice within the criminal legal system, and face ba... |
17.08.2020 | When Black Women Lead, We All Win: 10 Inspiring Leaders Show Us The Way | Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Barbara Lee, Opal Tometi, Valerie Jarrett, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Aimee ... [+] Allison, Raquel Willis, Alicia Garza, Amanda Seales, Luvvie Ajayi . |
09.08.2020 | Fashion And Beauty Develop A Strategy For The Second Half Of 2020 | When nature fights back, we must turn to nature to help us solve harsh challenges. While the coronavirus pandemic has its dangers, it remains clear to me that the spirit of the American people will pioneer in understanding by developing fre... |
16.07.2020 | 3 Foundation Leaders On How Philanthropy Can Support Inclusive Small Business Recovery | Getty |
07.07.2020 | Facebook boycott leaders ‘disappointed’ after meeting with Zuckerberg, Sandberg | What began as a relatively small effort by activist organizations to hold Facebook accountable for perceived policy failings has snowballed into a mass corporate backlash — and a rare moment of discomfort for a company that enjoys its statu... |
25.06.2020 | A behind-the-scenes look at how BI reporters Julie Bort and Taylor Nicole Rogers exposed a toxic corporate culture at Pinterest | Advertisement
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24.06.2020 | The two Black employees who took on Pinterest explain why they quit, their fight for pay, the death threats, the private investigator: 'It was a torturous experience' | When Aerica Shimizu Banks and Ifeoma Ozoma publicly quit their roles on Pinterest's public policy team, they said their time there was marked by "glaringly unfair pay, intense discrimination, and terrifying retaliation."
In an int... |
16.06.2020 | 2 Black women publicly resigned from Pinterest, saying they faced humiliation and retaliation and were passed over for promotion | Two Black women who quit Pinterest are tweeting about some negative experiences they say they had while working at the tech company.
The women were highly visible and respected members of Pinterest's public-policy team.
Ifeoma Ozoma, a Goog... |
15.06.2020 | Michelson 20MM Mobilizes Efforts to Renew and Expand Funding to Counter Systemic Racism | To Our Michelson 20MM Community,
In this time of civil protest, against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic which has disproportionately devastated minority communities, the Michelson 20MM Foundation stands proudly with demonstrators,... |
03.06.2020 | Black tech leaders issue call to action to fight racial injustice in the Bay Area | As a tumultuous week of protests draws broad attention to America’s open wounds of racist police violence, a coalition of Black founders, advocates, investors and other leaders are issuing a call to action for those in the tech industry to ... |
02.06.2020 | Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors | As protests against police brutality and economic manifestations of systemic racism in the U.S. continue, venture capital firms are joining the chorus of technology industry advocates lending their support to the cause.
For the past three d... |
02.06.2020 | Covidisparity: How The Pandemic Is Highlighting Racial Biases In Health, Employment And Wealth | A banner on Wall Street during the Occupy Wall Street march on May 1, 2102P. Gaudiano |
01.06.2020 | Stop Focusing On Looting And Start Focusing On Police Accountability | District of Columbia police officers at a rally for George Floyd on Saturday, May 30thThomas Stanton |
22.05.2020 | Congress Needs To Act Before Half Of The US’s Black & Latinx-Owned Small Businesses Close | Alyce on Grand is an Oakland small business that's successfully pivoted to online sales during the ... [+] pandemic — while bearing witness to the challenges faced by the independent businesses they partner with. Using their IG Live platfor... |
20.05.2020 | Mark Cuban’s Offer To Women And Minority-Owned Businesses: Let’s Get That Money | Mark Cuban continued his public effort to help businesses navigate the choppy financial waters of the coronavirus pandemic, and this time he is focused on helping minority-owned and women-owned businesses who missed out on their share of th... |
22.01.2020 | Hollywood Loves Portraying POC as Bad Cops, Study Finds | When it comes to representation in film and television, Hollywood has seemingly been taking the kind of steps made by a arthritic, 100-year-old tortoise. And if you're reading thinking this there's some good news about to be dropped on you,... |
07.01.2018 | KweliTV is Netflix for black people, by black people, starring black people | Kweli.tv aims to be the go-to streaming media platform for black filmmakers all over the world to share their content and make money from its distribution. KweliTV handpicks all of its content, with 98 percent of the content having been off... |
16.10.2017 | Silenced by ‘free speech’ | There’s a fundamental incongruency between being inflexibly pro ‘free speech’ and operating a global social network for civil public discussion. Twitter is struggling with it. Facebook is struggling with it, too. And it can’t be solved by a... |
29.03.2017 | ISPs and FCC Chair Ajit Pai celebrate death of online privacy rules | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai testifying before a Senate subcommittee on May 11, 2016, when he was a commissioner.
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15.10.2016 | Funders must give minority founders a fair deal | Kathleen Kelly Janus Contributor
Kathleen Kelly Janus is a lecturer at Stanford's Program on Social Entrepreneurship.
I learned a shocking statistic recently: Less than 1 percent of venture capital funding goes to black founders. This must ... |
18.02.2015 | Рейтинг самых инновационных компаний мира по версии Fast Company: Кто опередил Apple, Tesla и Google | Издание Fast Company опубликовало ежегодный рейтинг самых инновационных компаний мира. В нем не нашлось места таким компаниям, как Uber, Facebook или Amazon, а Apple заняла только второе место.
1. Warby Parker
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28.10.2014 | Net neutrality hearing ‘NY Speaks’ draws activists, policy wonks | Kickstarter and Etsy showed up at an unauthorized hearing on net neutrality at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch on Monday night, called “New York Speaks.”
The Manhattan borough president, Gale A. Brewer, a member of the mayor’s off... |
23.07.2014 | Twitter’s Diversity Report Is More Of The Same | Twitter released its diversity numbers on Wednesday afternoon after mounting pressure from civil rights groups — and they’re pretty bad if you’re not a white or Asian guy.
Overall, Twitter’s employees are 70 percent male and 30 percent fema... |
22.03.2014 | An Ex-Con Takes Aim at Multibillion-Dollar Private Prisons | Alex Friedmann may be better acquainted with the daily operations of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) than any other investor in the company. The bearded and bespectacled 44-year-old owns only a modest amount of stock in the multibi... |
- | One of the US's largest racial-justice organizations is slashing its budget and laying off staff after overspending on lavish perks | One of the US's largest racial-justice organizations is slashing its budget and laying off staff after overspending on lavish perks
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- | Minority entrepreneurs at a tipping point as Black-owned banks dwindle in the U.S. | The pandemic and George Floyd killing have escalated focus on racial injustice and economic inequity, and the lack of capital markets access for Black founders.
A 2018 SBA report found that minority business enterprises typically experience... |