The Southern University esports championship is a historic moment for HBCU athletics, gaming, and STEM culture. Southern University became the first historically Black college or university to win a Division II title in collegiate esports after claiming the Eastern College Athletic Conference EA
By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business Leaders of five historically Black colleges and universities met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday to discuss the company’s relationship with the schools in the wake of anti-HBCU-graduate discrimination allegations made by a former Google employee. On December 21, ex-Google diversity recruiter April Curley tweeted that she had been
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The Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have launched a new initiative aimed at increasing diversity in their cybersecurity workforce. The Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative (CEDI), announced Oct. 15, is a collaboration between NSA’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) Program Management Office and the Defense Department’s (DoD) Office
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Black Woman Breaks Ceiling In The Gaming Industry As The First To Launch Collegiate E-sports & Gaming Company – The Black Collegiate Gaming Association Creates Scholarship, Career, Competition and Tech Opportunities for Black College Students – GameStop, Intel and Nacon Gaming Agree to Support A Black woman is poised to change the gaming industry this
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The 6th annual BE Smart Hackathon, hosted by Black Enterprise and American Airlines, has concluded, revealing an array of prize-winning teams that represent the best tech talent from the nation’s HBCUs. Team Morehouse, composed of five students from Atlanta-based Morehouse College, scored first prize in the tightly-contested final showdown. Its Free-Fly travel app greatly impressed
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