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    Black Female Tech Entrepreneur Raises $7 Million for Renewable Energy Startup

    Jessica O. Matthews, CEO of Uncharted Play, is killing it in the tech world.

    Sameer Rao Sep 22, 2016 10:01AM EDT
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    WATCH: Rural Mississippians Fight the Digital Divide in New Episode of 'The Movement'

    Host Darnell L. Moore traverses Mississippi to investigate how digital culture’s advances leave many impoverished rural residents behind.

    Sameer Rao May 27, 2016 11:36AM EDT

    This FCC Vote Will Bring Broadband to More Low-Income Families

    The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to expand the Lifeline program—which currently subsidizes phone plans for many low-income Americans—to include broadband Internet access. 

    Sameer Rao Mar 31, 2016 5:56PM EDT

    New Innovation Center Will Support Black and Latina Women in Tech

    “We’re fundamentally changing the discussion about tech and diversity,” digitalundivided founder Kathryn Finney said when she announced the new center at South by Southwest this weekend.

    Sameer Rao Mar 14, 2016 4:10PM EDT

    Everything President Obama Said About the Digital Divide During His SxSW Keynote

    “It’s not enough just to focus on what’s the cool next thing. Part of what we have to do is to figure out how do we use and harness the cool next thing to make sure that everybody in this country has opportunity.”

    Sameer Rao Mar 14, 2016 3:17PM EDT

    Kansas City Has Warp-Speed Internet, and 20th Century Digital Divide

    Seventy percent of Kansas City public-school students do not have Internet access at home.
    Carla Murphy Mar 9, 2015 1:21PM EDT
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