BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Comcast said Wednesday it is expanding eligibility for its Internet Essentials program to households earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — More clean energy initiatives are needed and proposing them should remain a priority for the administration. That said, the new EPA policy rule on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lawmakers in Tallahassee and state capitals elsewhere will be coming under pressure from an assortment of constituencies seeking portions of the federal BEAD...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As an accepted member of the Council, Edwige Robinson, Senior Vice President of Network Engineering & Operations and Transformation of the Central Region at T-Mobile...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — What his resume shows is that Robert Smith is not afraid of breaking down walls and inserting himself into traditional bastions of whiteness...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Representation matters. We’ve seen that from the first day of this administration, the President signed an executive order to deal with racial inequity...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Guaranteeing that all Americans have broadband access would not only help close the digital divide but would also give the United States an...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now is the time for the Congress of the United States to act and to vote to pass President Joe Biden’s bold and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Remember these names: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Tiffany Cunningham, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi. These are President Joseph Biden’s first three nominations for the federal Court...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "There's a bunch of research about the value add of Black teachers in school. It turns out that Black teachers help all students...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With a new presidential administration, we have an opportunity to begin on the path to a strong recovery from the pandemic. But COVID-19...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the Public School Forum of North Carolina, 72 percent of Black and Brown students in the state’s public schools have parents...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Life as we know it is about to change in less than a nanosecond when 5G comes to neighborhoods in D.C. and across the...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — The City of Detroit has hired a new Director of Digital Inclusion whose task will be to reduce the “digital divide” by developing strategies...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In five short years, the cable giant Comcast has achieved incredible success with its Internet Essentials program, connecting 750,000...
By Hill Harper (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) The question, which came from a participant in a minority business empowerment seminar, quieted the room. The answer...
GLYNN A. HILL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds African-American and Hispanic millennials are just as technologically connected and likely to get news...
Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS DURANT, Okla. (AP) — Calling the Internet a 21st century necessity, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled a program to bring...
TALI ARBEL, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing that the government agency expand a phone subsidy...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press SALLY HO, Associated Press NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at Cuyama Valley...
Christine Armario and Sally Ho, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at rural...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As education, jobs, and the national and global economy go digital, people without broadband (high-speed Internet) access...
By Kim M. Keenan NNPA Guest Columnist The future of the Internet is a hot topic these days. The key issue is what is the...
Bijan Sabet, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—It’s Computer Science Education Week and for thousands of students around the country, that means nothing. Nothing despite that, according to Code.org,...
Claire Cain Miller, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—America’s slow and expensive Internet is more than just an annoyance for people trying to watch...
