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The 2019 Miss Universe Pageant - Show
April 28, 2022
Get ready for some Steve Harvey on PopViewers. That's right, the black-owned TV & film recommendation app has announced a…
March 4, 2022
Latoya Elder and Sherrell Dorsey have developed mentorship programs and resources to help Black job seekers land tech jobs.
Safiya Noble thegrio.com
October 22, 2021
Noble, the director of UCLA's Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, googled "Black girls," and pornography turned up first in her…
Google To Open Spaces For Mass Vaccination Sites And Promote Vaccine Education
March 9, 2021
Multiple current and past employees of the tech company claimed to have been sent away by the human resources department.
December 13, 2020
Crystal Etienne is the founder of Ruby Love, a company created to protect those who bleed from menstruation mishaps and…
December 6, 2020
Fareedah Shaheed, one of the change makers featured on Forbes's 30 Under 30 list this year, teaches online security to…
Facebook thegrio.com
November 3, 2020
Major tech platforms spent billions of dollars enhancing online security to fend off misinformation campaigns that plagued the sites in…
October 18, 2020
Aaron Fender, the cofounder of an Atlanta-based, Black-owned coffee company, will be receiving $50,000 from Google's new initiative.
Issa Rae thegrio.com
April 24, 2020
Issa Rae touted her clture enterprise, a data-driven site to remind the Black community that they are shapeshifters in culture
January 13, 2020
Blacks in the tech space often find themselves alone or with few people of color around them, but groups are…
Hustle House SXSW thegrio.com
March 13, 2018
"Hustle House was made to encourage people of color to host their own spaces within SXSW given that our dollars,…
July 3, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's new image-recognition program misfired badly this week by identifying two black people as gorillas, delivering…
July 24, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - In a report released Wednesday, by Janet Van Huysse VP of Diversity and Inclusion, Twitter's diversity numbers…
July 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The business relationship between hip-hop and technology has become extremely profitable over the past few years...
July 12, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Now, there seems to be a bit of arm flailing and hurried activity to create balance and…
June 28, 2014
Kim Kardashian and her clan rule the reality tv world, and now fans will have the opportunity to follow in…
May 9, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is orchestrating a $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker and music streaming…
March 25, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A scientific study from the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science produced some disturbing data which…
March 7, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Now that the likely NBA Hall of Hamer has a lot more free time on his hands,…
February 13, 2014
theGRIO VIDEO - Among the millions of aspiring models and health gurus that flood your Instagram timeline, there are a…