Paid for by the people: how Venmo, CashApp and GoFundMe are changing digital activism

by Madison Muller | Nov 18, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured, Social Justice

In the months since George Floyd’s death on May 25, activists have taken to social media to organize and mobilize the ensuing racial justice movement like never before. Accessibility and immediacy of apps like Instagram and Twitter have enabled people to connect...

Parler contributes to election misinformation and partisan divide

by Alicia Diaz | Nov 11, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — As Twitter and Facebook cracked down on the spread of election misinformation in recent months, conservatives flocked to Parler, an app that has no regulations about posting misinformation. The app jumped to the number one spot on the most downloaded...

Black Entrepreneurs Build Community Prosperity and Fight Systemic Challenges

by Alicia Diaz | Nov 2, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured

Iesha Malone wants her community to feel like home. So she has set out to create Rose Café, a bookstore and coffee shop to be stocked with books that elevate Black voices and empower the residents of her neighborhood in the southside of Chicago. “I can only be...

VIDEO: Economic Woes Predicted for Latin America

by Augusta Saraiva | Oct 27, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured

While the global economy is expected to shrink by 4.4 percent this year, Latin American and Caribbean economies are likely to experience a GDP contraction nearly twice as high as that, according to the Western Hemisphere Economic Outlook report released last Thursday...

Federal Reserve leaders challenged to do more to help communities of color during COVID-19 recession

by Nicholas Portuondo | Oct 7, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON- Leaders of several regional Federal Reserve banks were challenged Wednesday to do more to help low-income and minority communities survive the COVID-19 recession, especially considering the recent breakdown of congressional financial relief talks. “The...

A Day After Trump Ended Stimulus Negotiations, Experts Call for Fiscal Support to Counter COVID-19 Crisis

by Hangyun Kim | Oct 7, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON – An increase in fiscal spending is necessary to respond to COVID-19, a panel of practitioners and experts from Japan, Germany, and the United States agreed at Wednesday’s online discussion hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The...