Startup America Needs to Look More Like America

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Kalimah Priforce wonders: where are the startups of color?

The Data Revolution in Sports, Part 2

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In Part 1 of his essay, Liam Day traced the history of the data revolution from the factory floor to baseball’s front offices and beyond. In Part 2, he examines the fear of data.

Aaron Swartz to be Honored for Freedom of Information Activism

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Aaron Swartz will be “posthumously honored for crusading for open access rights to documents on the Internet.”

Facebook CEO Donates Almost $500 Million to Charity

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Mark Zuckerberg makes his largest donation yet to help address health and education issues in Silicon Valley.

The Feeling of Speed

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When Tom Matlack invested in a tech company other VC’s had left for dead, he had no idea how much it would bring him back to life.

Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs: Menaces or Linchpins?

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Deanna Ogle examines Mark Zuckerberg, his peers in the tech industry and how their social impairments affect society and innovation.

Race and the Miseducation of Silicon Valley

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Education technology is marginalizing less-privileged, minority children, Kalmah Priforce writes.

Technology: The Danger of Black In America [by Sonya Donaldson, @sunnygrrrl]

One of our Soul Review Board elders drops the bomb on CNN’s attempt to tell our digital story.

“All I See Are White Men”: Confronting Racism in Silicon Valley

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Eric Ries wants to talk about racism in the start-up world—without hand-wringing and with an eye towards achievable solutions.

The 10 at 10

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Bill O’Reilly has his wife’s boyfriend investigated by police, Mayor Bloomberg’s Spanish inspires El Bloombito, and Gilbert Arenas is misogynistic on Twitter.