Black tech professionals are using the AfroTech Conference to stay adaptable and find new opportunities in the face of automation and layoffs, while also leveraging AI to their advantage.
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Dijonai Carrington Brings Her Whole Self to Dallas: Power, Purpose, and All
DiJonai Carrington is a WNBA player who has found a new home with the Dallas Wings, bringing her passion for basketball, activism, and business to the city and the league.
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Bringing Black Studies to Black People
Stanford University professor Adam Banks regularly flies from California to Cleveland to teach a free college-level African American studies class to the Black community, aiming to create a safe space for Black people to connect and learn from one another.
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Autoimmune Disease Research Could Help Millions
Stanford University researchers have found that a faulty genetic molecule could be responsible for the immune system misidentifying healthy tissue as a threat, potentially leading to better treatments for autoimmune diseases that disproportionately affect women, particularly Black women.
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Changemaker N’Naserri Carew-Johnson Inspired by her Mother and the Disney Dreamers Academy
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia When N’Naserri Carew-Johnson arrived at the Disney Dreamers Academy in 2016, she didn’t realize how much she’d put herself in […]
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President Biden Nominates First Black Woman to Serve on Federal Reserve Board of Governors
“President Biden is working to bring long-overdue diversity to the leadership of the Federal Reserve,” Erica Lowe, the White House Director of African American Media, wrote on Twitter. “Lisa D. Cook would be the first Black woman in history to serve on the Board,” Lowe concluded.