The 2025-26 school year is here, and football is about to kick off, but it’s never too early to think about high school basketball practice and that first game. There are upwards of 20,000 high schools nationwide with boys’ hoops programs, and being nationally ranked is no easy task. It can be done, however, and...
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BPRW Salutes Neil Foote of Foote Communications in Honor of Black Business Month
(Black PR Wire) Miami, FL – This media mogul has an exceptional and highly successful track record, and continues to do good in the neighborhoods all over the nation. He’s Neil Foote, CEO of Foote Communications, LLC. Located in Dallas, Texas,…
(BPRW) Teacher Quality and Retention Program celebrates 16 years of transforming classrooms and building educational leaders
(Black PR Wire) Hundreds of educators who have been shaped by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund‘s (TMCF) Teacher Quality and Retention Program (TQRP), now entering its 16th year as one of TMCF’s signature programs. Since its la…
A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era
Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”
Joby Will Buy Blade’s Helicopter Taxi Business for $125 Million
Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a New York helicopter operator, for $125 million.
Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.
The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly gather with tech figures and other like-minded people in a complex that covers much of a city block.
How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.
AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says
AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers...
On ‘Martin,’ Pam and how we talk about art we love
Last week, Grammy-winning singer Ari Lennox took to social media to discuss her feelings about Martin, the classic 1990s sitcom starring the titular Martin Payne (played by comedian Martin Lawrence) and his friends trying to make it in Detroit. The show is beloved, especially among Black folks. Yet Lennox had some critiques, namely the way...

