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High-speed Internet... social media... broadband... mobile apps... online...e-commerce... smartphones... digital streaming... selfies... GPS systems.
These words were not part of the national vocabulary 50 years ago.
Learn moreAs the country remains focused on the ways in which Russia interfered with the integrity of the recent 2016 election, we must not forget to focus equal attention to the ongoing threat of voter suppression. Voter suppression and ongoing voting discrimination stand as grav
Learn moreFor the past eleven years, I have had the honor of representing the Ninth Congressional District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, I represent the very community that raised me. I still live on the same block where I grew up as a child in Central Brooklyn.
Learn moreBlack women are making indelible marks in the technology industry as leaders, entrepreneurs and influencers in the nation’s digital economy and are leading advocates for digital justice.
Learn moreOn February 1, 1968, two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death under their truck’s malfunctioning garbage compactor.
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