(Chicago Tribune) — Although we are amid a digital revolution, digital connectedness is on the wish list of many residents inChicago’s low-income neighborhoods this holiday season. Studies have shown that cost is a major barrier to Internet access, especially in the home. In Chicago, nearly 40 percent of residents do not have the broadband connections […]
(Afro) — Survey findings by the Washington, D.C. –based Public Media Corps reveal that when it comes to accessing the Internet to secure products and services as well as for use in honing skills, Blacks and Latinos in the District tend to be at a disadvantage. As a result, the digital divide widens, leading some […]
(New American Media) — Within 24 hours of the shooting of Oscar Grant – an unarmed, 22-year-old African American killed by a white BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009 – Oakland rap artist Mistah F.A.B. recorded a poignant, heartfelt tribute titled, “My Life.” F.A.B. recorded the song to “enlighten people to what’s going […]
(Wired News) — The founder of an influential, left-leaning web-based organization that advocates on African-American issues is asking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to oppose the candidacy of Bobby Rush (D-Illinois, pictured at left), who is African-American, to become the ranking member on the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. The reason? “Congressman Rush […]
(New American Media) — The ongoing, often arcane, battle over whether telecommunications companies may slow certain online services and charge fees to speed up others has morphed into a civil rights controversy. Many of the country’s leading civil rights organizations are siding with the phone and cable companies in their bid to prevent federal regulations […]
(The Grio) — The votes are in. The message is clear. Jobs and economic recovery are of primary concern to voters, and those are the issues that should be front and center to elected leaders. The voters in campaigns across the country focused their discussion on how government and business could restore health to the […]
(CNN International) — Despite widespread increases in use of broadband internet, the Web today still doesn’t accurately represent the racial demographics of America. That’s the take-away from a report on U.S. broadband adoption, published Monday by the Department of Commerce. “An African-American household at the same income level and with the same education level as a […]
(AP) — dThe U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009. What’s more, even when controlling for key socio-economic characteristics, the U.S. continues to confront a racial gap in […]
African-Americans, closing the digital divide.
(Black Web 2.0) — When thinking about those who use new media, we often bring to mind images of relatively young and well off people who access social media using trendy laptops or stylish smartphones. However, there is a group that is slowly gaining access to blogs and sites like Facebook and Twitter that don’t fit […]
(Black Web 2.0) — I’ve been going to the same barber for about 12 years now. He’s aware that I work in the tech industry so we always have discussions about gadgets mixed in with the usual sports trash talk and banter about current events that you can only hear at the “shop”. Recently, I […]