How much longer can we deny it; our nation is in a state of mass hysteria. This week has shown the worst of American society; a cooked up scheme to stoke racial tension; the utter failure of news journalists to check a single fact; an innocent victim no one seemed to care about, including those …
UPDATE July 22, 2010: After doing a bit more digging, and a rogue op. or 2, I’ve come up with some details on the “new technology” Safeway is using in the Renton store I was stopped at on Sunday. The system in question is called “Gatekeepers Systems”- and some of us may even be familiar …
Author’s note: This piece has been written for thefreshxpress.com which is actively examining the NAACP in light of its annual convention this week. Net neutrality is a civil and human rights issue which impacts everyone. Yet what has lacked worthy attention is how the matter uniquely impacts people and communities of color beyond the traditional …
You’ve likely noticed by now there haven’t been very many new posts on the SV lately, by me or any of the regular writers- you may even be wondering why. Here is the short, official version. It’s summer. We’re enjoying it. There will be very little new posts on the site in the weeks to …
When Garlin Gilchrist II was just 5 years old, his grandmother bought him his first computer. By 14 he had his first job building computers from scratch, a seemingly unlikely hobby for a young Black kid growing up in Detroit. By the time he graduated college as a computer engineer, Garlin had a job waiting …