Technology
Report: More African-American homes using broadband
A new report says a narrowing broadband adoption gap between African-Americans and whites can be further closed by focusing on a new FCC initiative connecting broadband with jobs. The report released Wednesday by the National Urban League policy institute shows the overall broadband adoption gap narrowing. While the home broadband adoption gap between black and [...]
National Urban League Hosts Panel on Jobs & Broadband
The National Urban League (NUL) recently released a report showing that the broadband access gap is narrowing between African Americans and white Americans. NUL hosts a panel discussion on the report, titled “Connecting the Dots,” which targets ways to link broadband access with job training and job creation. According to the report, the gap between [...]
African American Elders Log-In for Computer Fun—and Jobs
The St. Louis Monsanto YMCA is a place that makes elders get up in the morning. It has the largest population of participating African American seniors of any YMCA in the country. Walk into the gym and a 92-year-old African-American woman is leading a chair-aerobics class to a high-energy rhythm faster than you’ll hear in [...]
Digital Divide Persists, Though Blacks Blog More
New research suggests that although the digital divide still persists, some areas of Internet and social media use are more racially diverse than expected. University of California, Berkeley researchers discovered Internet-connected African-Americans are more likely to blog than their white and Hispanic counterparts. Researchers also found that Internet-savvy blacks, on average, blog one and a [...]
The Participation Divide: Separate and Unequal in Digital Media?
Kimberly Ellis, a Pittsburgh-based scholar and social media guru, was a tech-savvy young girl who picked up coding easily but was never taught how to harness her digital abilities. It was her early experience with “the participation divide,” she says, a term researchers use to describe the differences in how African Americans and Latinos and [...]
