Can hailing cab apps stop taxi discrimination?

Donovan X. Ramsey

theGRIO REPORT - With the advent of new mobile apps that seek to streamline the process of hailing a cab, taxi drivers will be rendered essentially colorblind...

Tech evangelist Adria Richards speaks out on social media 'shaming'

Janel Martinez, BlackEnterprise.com

Richards’ decision to out PyCon conference attendees, who made sexual innuendos while sitting behind her, sparked a massive online debate and social media controversy. One of the jokesters was fired, and Richards was let go from SendGrid shortly after.

Brooklyn elementary school offers digital music production class

Mathew R. Warren, NBC New York

NBC New York - A new after school program at a Brooklyn elementary school is taking a modern approach to teaching children about music.

All-Star to tech star: Black athletes need to get in the startup game

Garrett Johnson, Co-founder of SendHub

OPINION - Just one percent of all venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley have an African-American founder. We’d like to see more African-American and minority athletes get off the sideline and into the tech investing game...

Find local black businesses with new iPhone app

Sajjad Musa, DFRAGG.com

REVIEW - Around the Way is an app for your iPhone or Android device that helps its users locate black owned businesses...

theGrio's 100: Kelvin Doe, whiz kid from Sierra Leone

theGrio

theGRIO's 100 - Kelvin Doe, often called 'The Whiz Kid', is a 16-year-old self-taught inventor and engineer from Sierra Leone...

Will the new Blackberry 10 save the brand?

Dfragg

DFRAGG - Do you think Rim’s Blackberry z10 phone will be able to make a comeback? or are you too attached to your Android or iPhone?..

theGrio's 100: Rodney Stearns, helping locate missing kids with Text No More

theGrio

theGRIO's 100 - Rodney Stearns is an iPhone app developer from Portland, Oregon who designed the Text No More app to prevent users from texting while driving...