DLL Storify of NewME Accelerator's Twitter Chat with Tamar Lucien on Friday 11/14/14

Last update: Saturday 11/15/14 @ 7:41 am  PST

NewME Accelerator hosts a regular series of Twitter chats with founders of startup firms. This week's guest was Tamar Lucien ... @Tamarstruth ... Co-founder and CEO of CanUStart ... using hashtag = #founderchat ... CanUStart was also featured in TECH Cocktail Miami and has a short Youtube video

DLL Storify of HBCU Hackathon at Facebook -- Friday 11/14/14

Last update: Saturday 3/15/14 @ 3:19 pm PST

On Friday 11/14/14 UNCF and APLU sponsored a trip to Google, then the hackathon at Facebook for HBCU students attending the 2014 HBCU Summit Conference in Silicon Valley. The DLL used Storify to organize the tweets of attendees who used the hashtag #HBCUInnovation.  

Of Silicon Valley, the Talented Tenth, Bright Stars, Dark Stars, HBCUs, and Affirmative Action

Last update: Monday 11/17/14 @ 1:46 pm

"The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men."
… W.E.B. DuBois, The Talented Tenth, September, 1903

This essay is the first draft of a "Big Picture" -- a framework for understanding the relationships between the various notions mentioned in its title. I expect that most readers will find that most of my assumptions and derived assertions are consistent with what they already know about these topics.