Several distinguished speakers, faculty members and student leaders will take part in Commencement recognition ceremonies for Class of 2023 graduates and their families and guests May 12-15 at Washington University in St. Louis.
The city of North Miami could be the country’s next tech hub. City officials and the Lightship Foundation recently launched NoMi Tech to attract small, minority-led tech business to the
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A group of Black entrepreneurs are turning Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of the Tulsa Race Massacre into a technology hub for digital creators and developers
ABC News(TULSA, Oklahoma) A community of Black entrepreneurs are shaking up the tech and innovation ecosystem and forming a new hub for digital creators, developers and investors based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founders building companies from the city say it boasts a pipeline of fresh and diverse talent, an enterprising yet collegial support system, and offers a cost of living that will make any Bay Area or New York-based startup envious. For some, there is also the importance of building back the storied "Black Wall Street" that was violently taken from people that looked like them, in Tulsa, just a century ago. Some 300 people were killed and thousands wounded when a mob of white vigilantes, harboring resentment towards their thriving Black neighbors, eviscerated the well-to-do Greenwood district and burned down 35 acres of commercial and residential property. The legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre, erased from many history books for generations, still looms large over Black bu