Future of Work, Philadelphia Founders are Building Independent Employment Platforms for the Future of Hiring by: Alesia Bani
Academic Last July, MacKenzie Scott Gave $150 Million to HBCUs. Here’s Where That Money Has Gone. by: Mirtha Donastorg
Academic How a $25 Million HBCU Initiative Created a Pipeline for More Black Cybersecurity Professionals by: Mirtha Donastorg
Academic UNC Chapel Hill’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Controversy Sparks Examination Of Tenured Staff Diversity At Philadelphia Universities by: Hadriana Lowenkron
Academic Protests, Layoffs, and a Pandemic: How Diversity and Inclusion Advocates Are Navigating Tech’s Future by: Jewel Wicker
Big Ideas, Breaking, Trends Analysis: What Black Women Tech Leaders Are Up Against and the Future of Governance of Their Companies by: Sherrell Dorsey
Breaking, Funding BREAKING: MacKenzie Scott Gives Nearly $2 Billion to Organizations Helping Black and Brown Underserved Communities by: Mirtha Donastorg
Breaking, HBCU HBCU-Based Center for Black Entrepreneurship Gains Another Multi-Million Dollar Corporate Commitment by: Mirtha Donastorg
Breaking, Venture Capital BREAKING: Kapor Capital Launches New Black-Led $126 Million Venture Fund by: Mirtha Donastorg
Big Ideas, Breaking, Trends Analysis: What Black Women Tech Leaders Are Up Against and the Future of Governance of Their Companies by: Sherrell Dorsey
Breaking New Report Finds Progress in Pipeline For Acquiring Black Tech Talent Is Now Regressing by: Mirtha Donastorg
cannaprenuership Social Equity in Cannabis is A Step, But Far From Anything Equitable by: Jennifer Stavros
Cities Public And Private Industry Partner In The Fight Against Voter Suppression Laws by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner
Cities A Burgeoning Industry Of Tech Takes Root In Baltimore With Techstars’ Monica Wheat At The Helm by: Monica Melton
Cities Uncharted Aided By Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework For National Initiative by: Tyler Goodwin
Cities Philadelphia’s Comcast RISE Recipients on What Resources and $10,000 Grants Mean for Them and Their Community by: Hadriana Lowenkron
Cities We’re Partnering with WURD Radio to cover Philadelphia’s emerging Black innovation economy by: Sherrell Dorsey
Cybersecurity CyberBase Seeks to Close Gap in National Cybersecurity Talent Shortage by Increasing Black Representation by: Alesia Bani
Data, Funding, Research & Policy The State of Black Maternal Mortality: A Funding Crisis Addressing Power, Privilege and Policy by: Alesia Bani
Data Black-led Music and Entertainment Tech Companies That Are Turning The Industry On Its Head by: Monica Melton
Data There’s A Quitting Spree Among U.S. Workers, Here’s How It’s Impacting Black Employees by: Monica Melton
Data STUDY: Financial Services Industry Found To Have A ‘Tapering-off’ Phenomenon Among Black Professionals by: Monica Melton
Data Sets Health Tech Founders Have Been Revolutionizing Digital Health Care Long Before The Pandemic by: Alesia Bani
Founders Founders Are Creating Platforms to Bridge the Gender Gap in Financial Investing by: Alesia Bani
Founders Calendly Prepares for Growth, Ongoing Hiring, Amid National Tech Company Layoffs by: Sherrell Dorsey
Founders The Problem with Positioning Black Fund Managers as Saviors of Black Business by: Sherrell Dorsey
Founders From $100 Million MaC Ventures To Newcomer RareBreed Ventures, VCs Say These Factors Will Dominate Deals In 2021 by: Monica Melton
Funding Greenwood Receives $45MM Investment Led by Pendulum, Launches Membership Program for The Gathering Spot and More by: Mirtha Donastorg
Breaking, Funding BREAKING: MacKenzie Scott Gives Nearly $2 Billion to Organizations Helping Black and Brown Underserved Communities by: Mirtha Donastorg
Funding, Venture Capital Investors See Growth, Opportunity and Returns in Sustainability Tech Funding by: Alesia Bani
Funding, HBCU MacKenzie Scott’s Impact Persists Two Years Later, Howard’s Historic Research Haul and More HBCU Funding News by: Mirtha Donastorg
Future of Work, Philadelphia Founders are Building Independent Employment Platforms for the Future of Hiring by: Alesia Bani
Future of Work Twitter Hashtag Explores Open Conversations And Action For Black People In Tech by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner
Future of Work Breaking up Big Tech Order Offers Special Benefits to Black Technologists by: Tyler Goodwin
Future of Work The Plug and New Profit Partner to Reach Entrepreneurs Powering the Future of Work by: Sherrell Dorsey
Future of Work Emory University Presses Pause on Cybersecurity Program for Black Moms Due to COVID-19 Concerns by: Jeffrey Bissoy Mattis
Get Involved Advocacy Organizations Reshape AI Technology To Benefit People of Color by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner
HBCU Morgan State Makes Strides Toward Goal of Reaching Highest Tier of Research Universities by: Mirtha Donastorg
High/Big Tech, Insights Black Publicly Traded Companies Q3 Earnings, Several Report Increase in Net Revenue Amidst Economic Downturn and Pandemic Recovery by: Alesia Bani
High/Big Tech Black Publicly Traded Companies Report Q2 Earnings, Several Set To Be Acquired In Multi-Billion Dollar Deals by: Alesia Bani
Highlight On The Road: The 6th Annual Roadmap to Billions Conference Presented by Black Women Talk Tech by: Alesia Bani
Highlight A conversation with Google Arts & Culture Lead Simon Delacroix for Juneteenth 2022 by: King Williams
High/Big Tech, Insights Black Publicly Traded Companies Q3 Earnings, Several Report Increase in Net Revenue Amidst Economic Downturn and Pandemic Recovery by: Alesia Bani
Opinion Silicon Valley VCs are chasing Africas startups but white founders are getting the funds by: Todd Hamilton
Opinion Black Women Workers Are Less Impacted by Early COVID-19 Related Job Losses (Opinion) by: Bridget Boakye
Future of Work, Philadelphia Founders are Building Independent Employment Platforms for the Future of Hiring by: Alesia Bani
Philadelphia Pennsylvania is Investing $11 Million for Workforce Development Through Apprenticeship Programs Across the State by: Alesia Bani
Philadelphia 1Philadelphia Debuts With ‘Innovation Weekend’ Two Years After Launching by: Alesia Bani
Philadelphia Philadelphia’s Anchor Institutions Spend Billions Every Year, Local Players are Trying to Increase Allocation to Black Businesses in the Region by: Alesia Bani
Data Sets, Philadelphia DATABASE: Where Accelerators that Support Black Founders are Located by: Alesia Bani
Pro Member Calls PRO Member Call: Policy and Entrepreneurship in the wake of the digital divide by: Sherrell Dorsey
Pro Member Calls The Plug’s Pro Member Call: Understanding the Value of Black Assets with Dr. Andre Perry by: Sherrell Dorsey
PRO Member Story There’s Been a Monopoly on Prison Communication for Decades. Two Black-Led Startups are Looking to Change That. by: ThePLUG Staff
PRO Member Story A Researcher Has Created A New Force For Game Making With Computer Vision by: Brianna Rhodes
PRO Member Story Analysis: SPACs Won’t Do Much To Diversify American Stock Exchanges by: Monica Melton
PRO Member Story CES 2020 Centers Investment into Underrepresented Entrepreneurs and Investors by: Sherrell Dorsey
PRO Member Story Acquisition: Real Estate Tech Platform Compass Has Been on a Shopping Spree by: Sherrell Dorsey
Research & Policy Kapor Foundation Launches Initiative to Make Trillion-Dollar Tech Industry More Equitable by: Alesia Bani
Data, Funding, Research & Policy The State of Black Maternal Mortality: A Funding Crisis Addressing Power, Privilege and Policy by: Alesia Bani
HBCU, Research & Policy What Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Means for HBCU Graduates by: Mirtha Donastorg
Research & Policy Government Agencies Have Big Plans For Tech Legislation In 2022 by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner
Research & Policy Increased Diversity Among Policymakers Could Pave The Way For A More Competitive Tech Strategy For The U.S. by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner
Special Series Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab Leaves Black Tech Founders with More than They Came For by: Sherrell Dorsey
Special Series ABF Creative Taps Into The Power Of Openness And Accountability To Hit Revenue Milestone by: ThePLUG Staff
Special Series ANALYSIS: Comcast NBCUniversal Doubles Down On Its Approach to Support Underrepresented Entrepreneurs and Communities During the Pandemic by: ThePLUG Staff
Special Series How Fintech Startup Goalsetter Grew Its User Base And List Of Investors By Focusing On Its Mission by: ThePLUG Staff
Big Ideas, Breaking, Trends Analysis: What Black Women Tech Leaders Are Up Against and the Future of Governance of Their Companies by: Sherrell Dorsey
Trends From The Newsletter: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Less Famous Labor Organizer by: Monica Melton
Uncategorized DATABASE: HBCUs Received More Than $64 Million In Gifts And Grants In January by: Mirtha Donastorg
Uncategorized AI Can Bring More Equity To The Workplace And Consumer Markets By Implementing These Conditions by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner
Funding, Venture Capital Investors See Growth, Opportunity and Returns in Sustainability Tech Funding by: Alesia Bani
Venture Capital Fearless Fund is Making Major Moves: Investing in Gabrielle Union, Hosting Star-Studded Summit and Getting Ready to Launch Fund II by: Mirtha Donastorg
Breaking, Venture Capital BREAKING: Kapor Capital Launches New Black-Led $126 Million Venture Fund by: Mirtha Donastorg
Venture Capital Southbox Capital Relaunches $40 Million Fund In Atlanta As One Of Its Portfolio Companies IPOs by: Monica Melton
Venture Capital New Friends & Family Accelerator To Serve As A $20,000 Launch Pad For Underrepresented Founders by: Monica Melton
Venture Capital Certificate Program Fosters VC Investing Training For Aspiring Black Investors by: Cheri Pruitt-Bonner