Do we, for example, associate the stereotypical voice of an English butler — think of Jarvis the computer in “Iron Man” — with a helpful and intelligent person? And why do so many people want to hear a voice that sounds like it came from...
Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams are co-founders of an unusual job hunting site called Jopwell and it all started when they became friends while working at Goldman Sachs, jobs they took straight of college. They quickly discovered they had a similar interest: mentoring other young...
Solidifying President Barack Obama’s millennial aesthetics and South by Southwest crush, the White House hosted South by South Lawn (SXSL) last weekend, billed as a “festival of ideas, art and action” inspired by its Austin predecessor. In addition to panels on innovation, a performance by...
The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour’s April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes and gotten resourceful to launch their ventures. JUDY WOODRUFF: Nearly a decade after...
SAN FRANCISCO — Ime Archibong was eating lunch on Facebook's Silicon Valley campus with former colleague Makinde Adeagbo last year when Adeagbo pitched the idea for /dev/color, a nonprofit organization to bring together and grow the ranks of African-American software developers. "We sat outside, right in...
From the outside, TAF Academy is not much to look at. Housed in a series of bland, portable classrooms — tucked like an afterthought between a middle school and elementary school just east of Interstate 5 and some 20 miles south of Seattle — the school...