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EatOkra app brings diners to Black restaurants

By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer A recently released smartphone application for Android and iOS allows users to connect with more than 800 Black-owned businesses across

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Google Fiber’s war on African-American communities

By Khalil Abdullah Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Google has long been seen as a visionary company, one that has ushered in a host of innovations

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Comcast accepting proposals for two new African American-owned independent networks
(TriceEdneyWire.com) —Comcast Cable has announced it is now accepting proposals for two substantially African American-owned, independent networks that it will launch in select Comcast markets by January 2019. ...
Hot 8 Brass Band welcomes guests into the 2016 Collision Conference in New Orleans, La. | Photo courtesy of Robert Warren, Gigsy.co.
Tech conference presents new opportunities for New Orleans entrepreneurs
[caption id="attachment_22056" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Hot 8 Brass Band welcomes guests into the 2016 Collision Conference in New Orleans, La. | Photo courtesy of Robert Warren, Gigsy.co.[/caption] By David T. Baker Contributing Writer Collision. ...
Avondale Shipyard set to transition into energy manufacturing market
By David T. Baker Associate Editor Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), the company that first plus unsecured loans owns and manages Avondale Shipyard in Avondale, La., is moving out of shipbuilding and ...
New iPhone app points the way to Black-owned businesses
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from The North Star News/New America Media) – Around The Way, a New York-based company, and Clearly Innovative, a Washington, D.C.-based mobile-app development firm, have ...
New downtown hospitals are marred by transmission lines
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer A plan several years ago to bury transmission and other power lines at the University Medical Center and Veterans Affairs hospital, under construction now in the city’s ...
NOLA’s Silicon Bayou struggles to stay afloat
By Christian Villere and Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writers Let’s say I discussed with you where I wanted to build a technology startup. Most likely you would tell me to go to ...
Survey finds young people using new media for peer-based participatory politics
Contrary to notion of a digital divide, Black youth engage in participatory politics at rates equal to or slightly higher than white, Latino, and Asian-American youth. That is ...
Making a visit to the doctor without leaving home
By Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — Some­times you can’t make it to the doctor. You don’t have a way to get there, you’re bedridden, or you may have simply forgotten. ...

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